Test 12 · ★ · Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirst…

Real talk, did the king get a sip in this part?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: get · To what, where: sip, part

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	appos
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sip	det
9	sip	sip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 part	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 part	det
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the king	a sip		this part			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sip=Stimulus

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

yep, he drank a little after the hawk flew off, thirsty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 drank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drank	nsubj
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drank	obl:unmarked
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 flew	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hawk	det
9	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drank	advcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 flew	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thirsty	punct
13	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drank	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	he	a little					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fly off	past	the hawk						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nope, the hawk kept knocking the cup away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hawk	det
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cup	det
8	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocking	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 knocking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the hawk						tree rules
2	knock away	gerund	the hawk not said here	the cup				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cup=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nope, the hawk kept him from it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hawk	det
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	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 kept	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the hawk		him = he	it			vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary from it=Eventuality

Option 4

nope, the servant spilled it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 spilled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servant	det
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spilled	nsubj
5	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spilled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	past	the servant	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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