Test 1 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts, part 1: a hungry…

Wait, did his brothers really eat Ferko's bread while he was asleep, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, brothers, Ferko · What happens: wait, do, eat, be · To what, where: bread

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1692 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts, part 1: a hungry youth is robbed of his bread and maimed by his brothers» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brothers	nmod:poss
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
8	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bread	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Ferko	case
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 asleep	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asleep	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	cop
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bruv	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asleep	punct
16	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	present	his brothers	Ferko's bread		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
4	is	past	Ferko		asleep property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they scoffed the whole loaf, innit

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scoffed	nsubj
4	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 loaf	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 loaf	amod
7	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loaf	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past	they	the whole loaf and innit					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, they scoffed the whole loaf and then blamed him for sleeping in the sun, innit

The tree, 16 words

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scoffed	nsubj
4	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 loaf	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 loaf	amod
7	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blamed	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 blamed	advmod
10	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scoffed	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 blamed	obj
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 sleeping	mark
13	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 blamed	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sun	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sleeping	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	scoff	past	they	the whole loaf			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme
2	blame	past	they not said here	him = he		then	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	sleep	gerund	they not said here		the sun		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they swapped it for a stone, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 swapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swapped	nsubj
4	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swapped	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swapped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	they	it				for a stone and mate	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for stone=Co-Theme

Option 4

Yeah, they gobbled the whole loaf while he was out cold and then lied to everyone about it all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gobbled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gobbled	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gobbled	nsubj
4	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 loaf	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 loaf	amod
7	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gobbled	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 cold	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cold	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cold	cop
11	out	out	ADV	_	12 cold	advmod
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gobbled	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lied	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 lied	advmod
15	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cold	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 everyone	case
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 lied	obl
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 everyone	nmod
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gobble	past	they	the whole loaf			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme
2	is	past	he			cold, out property	tree rules
3	lie	past	he not said here		then	to everyone	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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