Test 2 · ★ · The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, part 1: a hungry dog beco…

So the girl ate the bread the dog gave her, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, dog · What happens: eat, give, innit · To what, where: bread, girl

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1480 «The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, part 1: a hungry dog becomes a dove, and Blue Beard leaves his wife the keys» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ate	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	eat	past	the girl	the bread		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
2	give	past	the dog		girl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	innit	infinitive	the girl 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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she gave it straight back to the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 dog	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	it	the dog				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to dog=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she scoffed it dead quick and felt sound again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scoffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scoffed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scoffed	nsubj
4	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scoffed	obj
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quick	amod
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scoffed	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 felt	cc
9	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scoffed	conj
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felt	obj
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 felt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past	she	it				quick property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	feel	past	she not said here	sound			again		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme

Option 3

Nah, she never even touched it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 touched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touched	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 touched	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 touched	advmod
6	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	past	she	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 4

Nah, she spat it out and cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 spat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spat	nsubj
4	spat	spat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spat	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 spat	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spat out	infinitive	she	it					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	she not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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