Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the sw…

Mate, what was the fancy grub that popped out of the basket in the garden?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, fancy grub · What happens: be, pop out · To what, where: fancy grub, basket, garden

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1768 «Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the swallow and the secret princess; a new tale begins» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grub	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 grub	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grub	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grub	det
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grub	amod
7	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 popped	nsubj
9	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grub	acl:relcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 basket	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 basket	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 basket	det
13	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 popped	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 garden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 popped	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the fancy grub	the fancy grub					tree rules
2	pop out	past	the fancy grub	the basket		the garden			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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

Roast meat and wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Roast	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wine	cc
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	imperative	you not said here	meat and wine					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Every kind of fancy food the palace cooks could ever make

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 food	case
4	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cooks	nsubj
8	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kind	acl:relcl
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 make	advmod
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present	the palace	every kind of fancy food not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
2	make	could	every kind of fancy food				ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

Honey and sweet bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bread	cc
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bread	amod
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Honey	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fruits and cakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cakes	cc
3	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fruits	conj

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

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