Test 3 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides…

What's the gaoler feeding them, like proper dinner?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gaoler · What happens: be, feed · To what, where: them

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1538 «Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides her baby in a basket after a mouse brings luck» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gaoler	det
4	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 gaoler	acl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feeding	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dinner	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 dinner	case
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dinner	amod
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feeding	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the gaoler						tree rules
2	feed	gerund	the gaoler not said here	them = they				like proper dinner	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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

Three peas and a bit of black bread, every single day, mate, innit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 peas	nummod
2	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bit	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peas	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bread	case
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bread	amod
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peas	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	vocative
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peas	conj

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

Option 2

Some soup and a bit of bread, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Three peas and a bit of black bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 peas	nummod
2	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bit	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peas	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bread	case
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bread	amod
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod

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

Option 4

Two peas and some stale bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 peas	nummod
2	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bread	cc
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 bread	det
5	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bread	amod
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peas	conj

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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