Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky si…
Did the thirsty man really drink the whole cellar?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, drink · To what, where: thirsty man, whole cellar
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1580 «Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky sisters and the wedding» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 drink | advmod |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cellar | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cellar | amod |
| 9 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drink | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the thirsty man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | drink | present | the whole cellar | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellar=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, every drop before the day was done
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 drop | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 drop | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 drop | det |
| 4 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 done | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 done | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux:pass |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 drop | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | the day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 2
Yeah, every drop by lunchtime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 drop | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 drop | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 drop | det |
| 4 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 lunchtime | case |
| 6 | lunchtime | lunchtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drop | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, he only had a sip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sip | det |
| 7 | sip | sip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | he | a sip | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sip=Patient |
Option 4
Yeah, all of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 all | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 all | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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