Test 1 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…

Yo, did the wolf actually eat the Prince's horse or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do, eat · To what, where: wolf, horse

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» 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	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 horse	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Prince	case
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nah	cc
13	nah	nah	INTJ	_	11 horse	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the wolf					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality
2	eat	present		the Prince's horse				actually property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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

Nah, he just ate the carrots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carrots	det
7	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	the carrots					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he scoffed the whole horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scoffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scoffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scoffed	nsubj
4	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past	he	the whole horse					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he absolutely demolished the entire horse in one go, bones and all, proper greedy

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 demolished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 demolished	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 demolished	nsubj
4	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	5 demolished	advmod
5	demolished	demolish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
7	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 demolished	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 go	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 go	nummod
11	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 demolished	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bones	punct
13	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 go	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 all	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 go	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 greedy	punct
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 greedy	amod
18	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 demolished	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demolish	past	he	the entire horse		one go and bones		absolutely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer

Option 4

Nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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