Test 6 · ★ · pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the…

Was the thirteenth dish dead tasty or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: thirteenth dish

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1752 «pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the thirteenth dish is forbidden, and must leave the house» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dish	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dish	det
3	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dish	amod
4	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tasty	csubj
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tasty	amod
6	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tasty	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tasty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the thirteenth dish					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 · ✓ the right answer

nobody ever wanted it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wanted	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	nobody	it			ever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the cat ate it all

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 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 it	det

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

Option 3

everyone scoffed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 scoffed	nsubj
2	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scoffed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past	everyone	it					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

the old man gobbled it

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	4 gobbled	nsubj
4	gobbled	gobble	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 gobbled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble	past	the old man	it					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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