Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi…

what did the Wind's son eat, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son · What happens: eat

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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	7 eat	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wind	det
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Wind	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · do-support	the Wind's son					mate vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

all the food he saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 food	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 food	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	all food not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the barrels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 barrels	det
2	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

whatever came near him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	whatever					near him = he	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

everything he saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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