Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

wait, who wanted to skewer the bird?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, want, skewer · To what, where: bird

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» 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	_	4 wanted	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 skewer	mark
6	skewer	skewer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skewer	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	skewer not said to happen	to-infinitive		the bird	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bird=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 · ← Mova's choice

The one who ate the most at the last feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 most	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 ate	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 feast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feast	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feast	amod
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl

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

Option 2

The gormandizer, the greediest one in the crew, who had already eaten two loaves

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gormandizer	det
2	gormandizer	gormandizer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaten	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gormandizer	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	greediest	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaten	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 crew	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crew	det
9	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 eaten	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
13	already	already	ADV	_	14 eaten	advmod
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 loaves	nummod
16	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eaten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	the gormandizer	two loaves					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The gormandizer, the greediest one in the crew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gormandizer	det
2	gormandizer	gormandizer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gormandizer	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	greediest	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 crew	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crew	det
9	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Greedy Joe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Joe	amod
2	Joe	Joe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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