Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 25: the stolen ros…

ok so the merchant wakes up starving, what's he even eating

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: merchant · What happens: starve, eat

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1438 «Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 25: the stolen rose and the Beast's bargain» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 starving	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 wakes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wakes	nsubj
5	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 starving	aux
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 wakes	compound:prt
7	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eating	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 eating	obj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 eating	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eating	nsubj
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 eating	advmod
13	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 starving	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	present							tree rules
2	eat	present · progressive	merchant						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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

Some roasted meat and wine from the great kitchen downstairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 meat	det
2	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 meat	amod
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wine	cc
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meat	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchen	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kitchen	amod
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meat	nmod
10	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	3 meat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dinner left on a little table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Dinner	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 table	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 table	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 table	amod
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		Dinner not said here		a little table			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location

Option 3

Whatever the castle servants had left out for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 left	obj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 servants	compound
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 left	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 left	compound:prt
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	past · perfect · passive		the castle servants				for him = he	tree rules

Option 4

Fruit from the garden trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 trees	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trees	compound
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fruit	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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