Test 1 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost agai…

Oi mate, why'd the birds scoff all the bread, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds · What happens: scoff, innit · To what, where: bread

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1468 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost again, the children reach the ogre's house» 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	Oi	Oi	X	_	2 mate	compound
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scoff	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 scoff	advmod
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 scoff	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scoff	nsubj
8	scoff	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mate	parataxis
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 bread	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bread	det
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scoff	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 scoff	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	would	the birds	all bread					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
2	innit	infinitive	the birds not said here						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 · ✓ the right answer

Cos Thumb had dropped bits all along the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	nsubj
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cos	flat
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	aux
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dropped	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	4 dropped	advmod
7	along	along	ADP	_	9 path	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · perfect	Cos	bits		the path		all property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme along path=Destination

Option 2

Cos Thumb wasn't careful with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Thumb	compound
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 careful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 careful	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 careful	advmod
5	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 careful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Cos Thumb					with it; careful property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the bread was left out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 bread	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bread	det
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 left	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	past · passive						cos the bread	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»

Option 4

Cos Thumb had dropped bits of bread all along the path he took

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	nsubj
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cos	flat
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	aux
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dropped	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bread	case
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bits	nmod
8	all	all	ADV	_	4 dropped	advmod
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 path	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 path	det
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 path	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · perfect	Cos	bits of bread		the path		all property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme along path=Destination
2	take	past	Cos	the path not said here					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme

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