Test 10 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the…

Man, why was Martin starving in the tower?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Man, Martin · What happens: be, starve · To what, where: Martin, tower

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1719 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the King jails Martin, and his animal friends steal rolls to save him» 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	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Martin	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Man	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Martin	cop
5	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Martin	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 tower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tower	det
9	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starving	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Martin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Man	Martin					tree rules
2	starve	gerund	Martin not said here			the tower			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 · ← Mova's choice

He had no water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no water					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The King gave him no food or drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 drink	cc
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the King	no food or drink	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme

Option 3

He had no food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no food					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4

The cat took all his bread away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bread	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bread	nmod:poss
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	3 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the cat	cat's bread				away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

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