Test 6 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

The old beggar lady was starving, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old beggar lady · What happens: starve

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lady	compound
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starving	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 starving	aux
6	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 yeah	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 starving	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 starving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	the old beggar lady						tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she said nobody had given her nowt for three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 given	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nowt	nmod:poss
9	nowt	nowt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	past · perfect	nobody	her nowt			day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nowt=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she said nobody had given her nowt for two days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 given	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nowt	nmod:poss
9	nowt	nowt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	past · perfect	nobody	her nowt			day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nowt=Theme

Option 3

Nah, she said nobody had given her nowt for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 given	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nowt	nmod:poss
9	nowt	nowt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 week	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	past · perfect	nobody	her nowt			week		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nowt=Theme

Option 4

Nah, she was well fed, she said somebody had given her a whole pie and a cloak

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fed	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fed	advmod
6	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fed	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 given	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 given	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pie	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pie	amod
16	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cloak	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cloak	det
19	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pie	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feed	past · passive		she		well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	she				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	past · perfect	somebody	a whole pie and a cloak	her = she		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pie=Theme

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