Test 11 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts, part 1: a hungry…

Would you let your mates cut your leg for a crust, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mates · What happens: let, cut · To what, where: leg

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mates	nmod:poss
5	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	parataxis
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 leg	nmod:poss
8	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 crust	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 crust	det
11	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nah	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 nah	cc
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 let	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	would	you						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	cut	present	your mates	your leg				for a crust	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent leg=Product for crust=Asset

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

Nah, no way, that's mental, I'd rather starve than lose a leg for bread

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 mental	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mental	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 mental	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mental	cop
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 starve	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 starve	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 starve	aux
12	rather	rather	ADV	_	13 starve	advmod
13	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 mental	parataxis
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 lose	mark
15	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 starve	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 leg	det
17	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lose	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 bread	case
19	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	that		no way obl; mental property	tree rules
2	starve	would	I			tree rules
3	lose	infinitive	I not said here	a leg	for bread	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality

Option 2

Yeah, if I was starving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 starving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 starving	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 starving	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 starving	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 starving	aux
6	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	I						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, no way, that's mental

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 mental	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mental	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 mental	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mental	cop
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					no way obl; mental property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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