Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become ste…

Mate, did the giant's daughter really make the king's son eat her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, son · What happens: do, make, eat · To what, where: daughter, son, Mate

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2019 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become steps, a finger is lost, and the giant drowns» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 giant	case
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 son	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the giant's daughter	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality
2	make	present	Mate not said here	the king's son	tree rules
3	eat	infinitive	the king's son not said here	Mate	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 got a dog to lick his face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lick	mark
8	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 face	nmod:poss
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	a dog					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
2	lick	to-infinitive	he not said here	dog's face					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she just made him fancy her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fancy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	she	him = he					tree rules
2	fancy	infinitive	him = he not said here	her = she					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, he ate a bit of her then spat it out and she was fine, sorted

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 spat	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 spat	nmod:poss
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 spat	advmod
10	spat	spat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bit	acl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spat	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 spat	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fine	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fine	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fine	cop
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ate	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sorted	punct
18	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	a bit			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
2	spat out	infinitive	a bit not said here	bit	then		tree rules
3	is	past	she			fine property	tree rules
4	sort	participle	he not said here				vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he killed her, then put her back together with water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 killed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 killed	nsubj
4	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 killed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 put	advmod
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 killed	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 put	advmod
11	together	together	ADV	_	8 put	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 water	case
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	he	her = she					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	put back	infinitive	he not said here		her = she		then	with water; together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

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