Test 3 · ★ · Tales for Young Folks, The Barmecide Feast, part 15: poor…

wait, so he was starving, like two days no bread, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, starve

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 355 «Tales for Young Folks, The Barmecide Feast, part 15: poor Schacabac is treated to a pretend feast by a rich old man» 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	_	6 starving	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 starving	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 starving	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 starving	aux
6	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 days	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 starving	obl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 bread	det
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 days	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
15	?	?	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	starve	past · progressive	he				day		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, and he was skint, starving, and sleeping rough in the street

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 skint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 skint	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 skint	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 skint	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 skint	cop
6	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 starving	punct
8	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 skint	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sleeping	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sleeping	cc
11	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 skint	parataxis
12	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sleeping	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 street	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 street	det
15	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		skint property	tree rules
2	starve	gerund	he not said here			tree rules
3	sleep	gerund		the street	rough property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in street=Location

Option 2

Yeah, three days no food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 days	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	appos

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

Option 3

Yeah, he hadn't eaten proper bread for two whole days, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 eaten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eaten	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eaten	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eaten	advmod
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bread	amod
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eaten	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eaten	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 days	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · perfect	he	proper bread			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, two days no bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 days	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	appos

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

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