Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton…

Did the glutton really scoff twelve oxen in one go, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, scoff, innit · To what, where: glutton, twelve oxen, one go

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1723 «Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks and wins the Princess» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 glutton	det
3	glutton	glutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 scoff	advmod
5	scoff	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 oxen	nummod
7	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scoff	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 go	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 go	nummod
10	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scoff	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scoff	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	the glutton		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glutton=Eventuality
2	scoff	present	twelve oxen	one go	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
3	innit	infinitive			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

Yeah, at one sitting, no messing, and then he asked for more bread

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sitting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 sitting	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sitting	nummod
5	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 messing	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 messing	det
8	messing	messing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 asked	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 bread	case
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 bread	amod
16	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he				then	for more bread	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, he only ate four, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	four					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Patient
2	innit	infinitive	he not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, at one sitting, no messing, then he burped and went straight back to the table

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sitting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 sitting	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sitting	nummod
5	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burped	nsubj:outer
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 messing	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 messing	det
8	messing	messing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 burped	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 burped	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 burped	nsubj
12	burped	burp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 burped	conj
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	16 back	advmod
16	back	back	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 table	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 table	det
19	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burp	past	one sitting and no messing				then		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	one sitting and no messing not said here			the table			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, at one sitting, no messing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sitting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 sitting	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sitting	nummod
5	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 messing	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 messing	det
8	messing	messing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	conj

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

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