Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

ok so Johnny-cake got eaten in one bite, was that a proper ending or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: Johnny cake, one bite, proper ending

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	16 ending	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 eaten	mark
3	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cake	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Johnny	punct
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eaten	nsubj
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux:pass
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ending	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bite	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 bite	nummod
10	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eaten	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ending	cop
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 ending	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ending	det
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ending	amod
16	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 nah	cc
18	nah	nah	INTJ	_	16 ending	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 ending	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive		Johnny cake		one bite			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a	past		a proper ending					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 right answer

the fox snapped him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snapped	nsubj
3	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 snapped	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 snapped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap up	past	the fox	him = he					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

Option 2

he was eaten

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	3 eaten	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux:pass
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive		he					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

he was let go free

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	3 let	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux:pass
3	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · passive		he					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	he not said here					free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he escaped

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 escaped	nsubj
2	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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