Test 3 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…

Did the storks have a proper dinner or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storks · What happens: have · To what, where: proper dinner

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1872 «Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget the magic word and spend a night in a haunted ruin» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 storks	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 storks	det
3	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dinner	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dinner	amod
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 have	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the storks	a proper dinner					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=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

They had dates, cos bread was not allowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cos	punct
5	cos	co	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dates	conj
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 allowed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 allowed	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 allowed	advmod
9	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dates	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	dates and cos					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient
2	not allow	past · passive	dates and cos not said here	bread					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They had fruit, cos frogs and lizards were gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 frogs	punct
5	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frogs	compound
6	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fruit	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gross	cc
8	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gross	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gross	cop
10	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	fruit and cos frogs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
2	is	past	lizards					gross property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They had fruit, cos frogs and lizards were gross, and the Vizier made them eat dry bread and nuts anyway

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 frogs	punct
5	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frogs	compound
6	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fruit	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gross	cc
8	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gross	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gross	cop
10	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Vizier	det
14	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	obj
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	xcomp
18	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bread	amod
19	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 nuts	cc
21	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bread	conj
22	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	fruit and cos frogs	anyway property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
2	is	past	lizards		gross property	tree rules
3	make	past	the Vizier	lizards = lizard		tree rules
4	eat	infinitive	lizards = lizard not said here	dry bread and nuts		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

Option 4

They had fruit, cos frogs and lizards were gross, and they were properly starving

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 frogs	punct
5	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frogs	compound
6	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fruit	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gross	cc
8	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gross	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gross	cop
10	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 starving	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 starving	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 starving	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 starving	aux
15	properly	properly	ADV	_	16 starving	advmod
16	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	fruit and cos frogs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
2	is	past	lizards		gross property	tree rules
3	starve	past · progressive	lizards = lizard		properly property	tree rules

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