Test 1 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…

Yo, so why was the King totally vexed at dinner, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: be, vex · To what, where: dinner

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the Princess» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 vexed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 vexed	advmod
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 vexed	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 why	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 vexed	nsubj
8	totally	totally	ADV	_	9 vexed	advmod
9	vexed	vex	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 dinner	case
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vexed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dinner	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 vexed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						why property	tree rules
2	vex	past	the King			dinner and mate		totally property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

his dinner tasted like cardboard and he couldn't even swallow it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dinner	nmod:poss
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tasted	nsubj
3	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 cardboard	case
5	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tasted	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 swallow	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 swallow	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 swallow	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 swallow	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 swallow	advmod
11	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tasted	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 swallow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past	his dinner					like cardboard	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	not swallow	could	dinner	cardboard					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

his food was totally burnt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 food	nmod:poss
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burnt	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burnt	aux:pass
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 burnt	advmod
5	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · passive		his food				totally property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his grub tasted like cardboard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grub	nmod:poss
2	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tasted	nsubj
3	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 cardboard	case
5	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past	his grub					like cardboard	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

the grub was made of old leather boots and the cook got sacked for it

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 grub	det
2	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 boots	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boots	amod
7	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boots	compound
8	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sacked	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cook	det
11	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sacked	nsubj:pass
12	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sacked	aux:pass
13	sacked	sack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the grub				of old leather boots	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	sack	past · passive		the cook				for grub	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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