Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cu…

Wait, the baby in the cradle ate a cake with no griddle?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, baby · What happens: wait, eat · To what, where: cake

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2011 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cucullin is tricked, and Trembling rides to church» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cradle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cradle	det
7	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 baby	nmod
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cake	det
10	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 griddle	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 griddle	det
13	griddle	griddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	the baby in the cradle	a cake				with no griddle	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=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, Fin was full and sat it out, mate, chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 full	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sat	cc
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 sat	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chill	punct
13	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Fin					full property	tree rules
2	sit out	past	Fin not said here	it					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, Fin was starving and went in for it, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 starving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 starving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 starving	aux
5	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 starving	conj
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sound	punct
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	Fin	sound					tree rules
2	go in	past	Fin not said here					for it	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, bro, it was the king's daughter who ate the cake and then slept for three days in the cradle, sound

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 bro	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 daughter	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ate	nsubj
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 daughter	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cake	det
14	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 slept	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 slept	advmod
17	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ate	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 days	case
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 days	nummod
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 slept	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 cradle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cradle	det
23	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slept	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sound	punct
25	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	the king's daughter and sound			tree rules
2	eat	past	the king's daughter and sound	the cake			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
3	sleep	past	the king's daughter and sound not said here		the cradle	then; day	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cradle=Location

Option 4

Nah, the baby was just crying in the cradle, mate, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crying	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crying	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 crying	advmod
7	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cradle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cradle	det
10	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crying	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cradle	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crying	punct
14	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 crying	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	the baby			the cradle and mate			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cradle=Location

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