Test 12 · ★ · Balkan Folk-Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 38: Militza f…

wait, did the King eat the fruit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, King · What happens: wait, eat · To what, where: fruit

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1714 «Balkan Folk-Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 38: Militza flies off, Iwanich lies to his father, and the beasts close in» 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	_	6 eat	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fruit	det
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past · do-support	the King	the fruit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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

no, he threw it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 threw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	past	he	it					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

no, he did not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yes, it tasted great

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tasted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tasted	nsubj
4	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tasted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past	it					great property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yes, he ate two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ate	obj

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

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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