Test 5 · ★ · Tales for Young Folks, The Barmecide Feast, part 15: poor…

ha, so Schacabac actually saw the boy, didn't he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: see, not do · To what, where: boy

This is test 5 · ★ 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	ha	ha	INTJ	_	6 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ha	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
4	Schacabac	Schacabac	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 did	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Schacabac	the boy				actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	not do	past	Schacabac						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, he saw the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	the boy					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus

Option 2

Nah, there was no boy and no basin, it was all pretend, mate

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pretend	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 basin	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 basin	det
9	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pretend	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pretend	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pretend	cop
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 pretend	advmod
14	pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mate	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pretend	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	basin					mate vocative; all, pretend property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, no boy, no basin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 boy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boy	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 basin	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 basin	det
7	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	conj

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

Option 4

Yeah, he saw the boy come in with a basin and a towel, mate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 basin	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 basin	det
11	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 towel	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 towel	det
14	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 basin	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mate	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 basin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	the boy					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	come in	present						with a basin and a towel and mate	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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