Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the…

bro what was the old donkey's punishment?

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

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1688 «Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the faithless trio with magic cabbage» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 punishment	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 punishment	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 punishment	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 donkey	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 donkey	amod
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 punishment	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 donkey	case
8	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 punishment	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	the old donkey's punishment					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

two beatings and a meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 beatings	nummod
2	beatings	beating	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 meal	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meal	det
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beatings	conj

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

Option 2

three beatings and one meal every morning until the old donkey died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 beatings	nummod
2	beatings	beating	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 died	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 meal	cc
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 meal	nummod
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beatings	conj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beatings	obl:unmarked
8	until	until	ADP	_	11 donkey	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 donkey	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 donkey	amod
11	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beatings	nmod
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	three beatings until the old donkey and one meal						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

three beatings and one meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 beatings	nummod
2	beatings	beating	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 meal	cc
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 meal	nummod
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beatings	conj

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

Option 4

it got beaten three times, then fed once, then sent back to the yard again

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beaten	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beaten	aux:pass
3	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beaten	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fed	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fed	advmod
8	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 beaten	conj
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 fed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sent	advmod
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beaten	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 yard	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 yard	det
16	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl
17	again	again	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past · passive	it	time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	feed	participle		then	once property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	send back	past		then; again	to the yard	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to yard=Destination

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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