Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring: a baron tries…

Proper unfair, the father gave his kid away for free, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: father · What happens: give away · To what, where: kid

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1971 «English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring: a baron tries to drown the girl he has fated for his son, and a ring saves her» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 unfair	advmod
2	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 unfair	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kid	nmod:poss
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 gave	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 free	case
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gave	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 unfair	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	2 unfair	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 unfair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past	the father	father's kid				for free; away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent kid=Theme

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

Well, he thought he had no bread left and couldn't feed them all winter

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 bread	det
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bread	acl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 feed	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 feed	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 feed	advmod
13	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feed	iobj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 winter	det
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	he	no bread			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
3	leave	participle		no bread not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not feed	could	he not said here		them = they	winter	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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

Well, he thought he had no bread left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 bread	det
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bread	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	he	no bread	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
3	leave	participle		no bread not said here	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Well, he feared starving his family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 feared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 feared	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 family	nmod:poss
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	starve	gerund	he not said here	his family					tree rules

Option 4

Well, he had no money left, though

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 money	det
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 money	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct
9	though	though	ADV	_	7 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no money					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	leave	participle		no money not said here				though property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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