Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky si…

Could the bread man eat the mountain?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bread man · What happens: eat · To what, where: mountain

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	could	the bread man	the mountain					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=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, he scoffed the whole mountain in one day and asked for pudding

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mountain	amod
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asked	cc
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scoffed	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 pudding	case
14	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past	he	the whole mountain			day		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	he not said here					for pudding	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he ate the lot in a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 week	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 week	det
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	the lot			week		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

Option 3

Nah, he gave up at lunch

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 lunch	case
7	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he			lunch			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he scoffed the lot in one day

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past	he	the lot			day		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

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