Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Lion: the girl cuts the princes…

So why did the giant nick the oxen, asses and pigs?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: giant nick

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1646 «Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Lion: the girl cuts the princess's hair and frees the prince» 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	_	3 did	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nick	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nick	amod
6	nick	nick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oxen	det
8	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nick	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asses	punct
10	asses	ass	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 oxen	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pigs	cc
12	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 oxen	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the giant nick and the oxen and asses and pigs					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nick=Eventuality

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

Revenge for her kindness to the lion and the prince who had been hiding nearby

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 kindness	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 kindness	nmod:poss
4	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Revenge	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kindness	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 prince	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lion	conj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hiding	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hiding	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 hiding	aux
14	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 lion	acl:relcl
15	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	14 hiding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · perfect · progressive	the lion and the prince					nearby property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Revenge for her kindness to the lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 kindness	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 kindness	nmod:poss
4	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Revenge	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kindness	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Revenge for her kindness to the lion, which the giant never forgave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgave	nsubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 kindness	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 kindness	nmod:poss
4	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Revenge	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kindness	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 giant	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 giant	nsubj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lion	conj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 forgave	advmod
13	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	giant		the lion and the giant						tree rules
2	not forgive	past	Revenge for Revenge's kindness to the lion and the giant						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He was hungry for their meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 meat	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 meat	nmod:poss
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hungry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					for their meat; hungry property	tree rules

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