Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow…

what happened when the cook caught him, was it bare harsh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cook · What happens: happen, catch, be · To what, where: him

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1855 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow is caught and plucked» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 caught	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	nsubj
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 harsh	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 harsh	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 harsh	nsubj
11	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 harsh	amod
12	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happened	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	past				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	the cook	him = he		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past	cook		harsh property	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

the cook plucked his tail feathers off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plucked	nsubj
3	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feathers	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feathers	compound
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plucked	obj
7	off	off	ADV	_	3 plucked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pluck	past	the cook	cook's tail feathers				off property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

Option 2

he plucked his feathers, leaving tufts

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 plucked	nsubj
2	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feathers	nmod:poss
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plucked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leaving	punct
6	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 plucked	advcl
7	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pluck	past	he	his feathers					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	leave	gerund	he not said here	tufts					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuft=Theme

Option 3

the cook plucked nearly all his feathers and then rubbed spiced buttermilk all over him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plucked	nsubj
3	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 feathers	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feathers	nmod:poss
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plucked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rubbed	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 rubbed	advmod
10	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 plucked	conj
11	spiced	spice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 buttermilk	amod
12	buttermilk	buttermilk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rubbed	obj
13	all	all	ADV	_	15 him	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rubbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pluck	participle	the cook	cook's feathers			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	rub	past	the cook not said here	spiced buttermilk	then	over cook	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent buttermilk=Theme over he=Destination
3	spice	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he plucked his feathers, all but one tuft

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 plucked	nsubj
2	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feathers	nmod:poss
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plucked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 all	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 plucked	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 tuft	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 tuft	nummod
9	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 all	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pluck	past	he	his feathers				all obl	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

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