Test 4 · ★ · Balkan Folk-Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 38: Militza f…

no cap, who fed the beasts the crumbs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: feed · To what, where: beasts

This is test 4 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 fed	nsubj
5	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beasts	det
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fed	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crumbs	det
9	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fed	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	no cap	the beasts					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient crumb=Theme

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 old beggar who gave him the bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beggar	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beggar	amod
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beggar	acl:relcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bag	det
8	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the old beggar	the bag	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bag=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the Prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the forest birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
2	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birds	compound
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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