Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 17: a Raven tells G…

bare hungry lot, nobody shared a crust?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: share · To what, where: bare hungry lot

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 290 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 17: a Raven tells Gerda that Kay is living with a Princess» 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	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lot	amod
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lot	amod
3	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shared	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lot	punct
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 shared	nsubj
6	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crust	det
8	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shared	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 shared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	past	nobody	bare hungry lot					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

Yeah, each one thought, let him look peaky, the princess won't pick him, and so nobody shared even a crumb of bread at all

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	peaky	peaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pick	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pick	nsubj
14	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pick	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 pick	advmod
16	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pick	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shared	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shared	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 shared	advmod
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 shared	nsubj
22	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
23	even	even	ADV	_	25 crumb	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 crumb	det
25	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shared	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 bread	case
27	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crumb	nmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	each one				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	let	infinitive		him = he			tree rules
3	look	infinitive	him = he not said here			peaky property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	not pick	future	the princess	him = he			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	share	past	nobody	a crumb of bread	all		tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, each lad figured the rest should look hungry, so he'd win

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 figured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 figured	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 figured	nsubj
5	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 look	aux
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 figured	ccomp
10	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 win	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 win	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 win	nsubj
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 win	aux
15	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 figured	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	figure	past	each lad		tree rules
2	look	should	the rest	hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	win	would	rest		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, each one thought, let him look peaky, the princess won't pick him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	peaky	peaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pick	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pick	nsubj
14	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pick	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 pick	advmod
16	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	each one			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	let	infinitive		him = he		tree rules
3	look	infinitive	him = he not said here		peaky property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	not pick	future	the princess	him = he		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, everyone kept their grub, thinking the others should look peaky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grub	nmod:poss
6	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thinking	punct
8	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 look	csubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 others	det
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thinking	obj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 look	aux
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	parataxis
13	peaky	peaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	everyone	their grub		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grub=Theme
2	think speech: other	gerund		the others		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot other=Theme
3	look	should	thinking		peaky property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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