Test 10 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship…
mid ngl, what did the cats get to eat?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mid ngl, cats · What happens: do, get, eat
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1415 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship turns black after the old man steals the 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 | mid | mid | X | _ | 2 ngl | compound |
| 2 | ngl | ngl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cats | det |
| 7 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 get | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | mid ngl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | present | the cats | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | the cats not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Only dry bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 bread | advmod |
| 2 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bread | amod |
| 3 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nothing at all for several days, and then the mice were thrown to them
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 all | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thrown | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thrown | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 thrown | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mice | det |
| 11 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thrown | aux:pass |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Nothing | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thrown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | the mice | them = they | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to they=Destination |
Option 3
Nothing for days, so they turned on the mice in a fury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 mice | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mice | det |
| 10 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 turned | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fury | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fury | det |
| 13 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Nothing | a fury | on the mice | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on mouse=Source in fury=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nothing for days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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