Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed pri…

Did the Queen let the dog eat loads of cake?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen, dog · What happens: let, eat · To what, where: loads

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1479 «Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed prince becomes a monster and then a little dog» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cake	case
10	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loads	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	the Queen						tree rules
2	eat	infinitive	the dog	loads of cake					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=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

Yeah, a bit of cake and meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cake	case
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 meat	cc
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she gave him cake every single day and let him eat as much as he liked

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eat	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 liked	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 liked	nsubj
18	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 much	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	past	she	cake	him = he	day	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cake=Theme
2	let	infinitive	she not said here	him = he			tree rules
3	eat	infinitive	him = he not said here	much			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
4	like	past	he				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, just a tiny bit of bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 bit	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bit	amod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bread	case
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod

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

Option 4

Yeah, she let him feast on cakes, meat, and sweets whenever he wanted them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	feast	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 cakes	case
8	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feast	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 meat	punct
10	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cakes	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wanted	cc
13	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wanted	nsubj
14	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 wanted	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	nsubj
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	she	him = he		tree rules
2	feast	infinitive	him = he not said here		on cakes and meat	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on cake=Patient
3	want	past	sweets	cakes = cake	whenever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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