Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and the Fairy's Daughter: the bird-…

Did the little fishes actually eat the Fairy in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: little fishes · What happens: eat · To what, where: Fairy, end

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1711 «Fairy Book, The Prince and the Fairy's Daughter: the bird-girl is freed and the wicked Fairy drowns» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fishes	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fishes	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fishes	amod
4	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fairy	det
8	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the little fishes	the Fairy			in the end	actually property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she made a proper good meal for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meal	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meal	amod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meal	amod
8	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	she	a proper good meal				for them = they	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent meal=Product for they=Asset

Option 2

Yeah, she made a proper good meal for them and they were well fed for weeks after

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meal	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meal	amod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meal	amod
8	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 meal	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fed	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fed	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fed	aux:pass
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 fed	advmod
15	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 weeks	case
17	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fed	obl
18	after	after	ADP	_	15 fed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	she	a proper good meal				for them = they	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent meal=Product for they=Asset
2	feed after	past · passive		they			week	well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 3

Nah, she got away in the thorns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 thorns	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thorns	det
8	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	past	she			the thorns		away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, the fishes ate her bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fishes	det
4	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bones	nmod:poss
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the fishes	her bones					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

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