Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Glass Axe, part 1: a prince who touches th…

Wait, so the wolves actually fed him, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wolves · What happens: wait, feed, innit · To what, where: him

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1709 «Fairy Book, The Glass Axe, part 1: a prince who touches the ground is stolen by a Fairy and set an impossible task» 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	_	7 fed	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 fed	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolves	det
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fed	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 fed	advmod
7	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feed	past	the wolves	him = he	actually property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	innit	infinitive	you not said here			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

Nah, they chased him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj
4	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 chased	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	past	they	him = he					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they let him hunt with them and shared the kill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hunt	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shared	cc
10	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kill	det
12	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	present	they	him = he		tree rules
2	hunt	infinitive	him = he not said here		with them = they	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	share	past	they not said here	the kill		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they let him sit with them and gave him food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sit	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	present	they	him = he			tree rules
2	sit	infinitive	him = he not said here			with them = they	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	they not said here	food	him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme

Option 4

Nah, they bit him and left him alone to starve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 left	cc
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bit	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	obj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 left	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 starve	mark
11	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 left	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bite	past	they	him = he		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	leave	past	they not said here	him = he	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	starve	to-infinitive	they not said here			tree rules

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