Test 7 · ★ · Tales for Young Folks, The Barmecide Feast, part 15: poor…

wicked, the Barmecide carved a roast that wasn't there, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Barmecide, roast · What happens: carve, not be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 carved	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Barmecide	det
4	Barmecide	Barmecide	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 carved	nsubj
5	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wicked	parataxis
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 roast	det
7	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 there	nsubj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 there	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 there	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 carved	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	1 wicked	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past	the Barmecide						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	a roast					there property	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, he carved an imaginary roast with a knife and fork, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 carved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carved	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carved	nsubj
4	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 roast	det
6	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 roast	amod
7	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carved	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 knife	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 knife	det
10	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roast	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fork	cc
12	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knife	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knife	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past	he	a imaginary roast				with a knife and fork and mate	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent roast=Patient with knife=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, pretend carving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 carving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carving	punct
3	pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 carving	amod
4	carving	carving	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, pretend slicing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slicing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slicing	punct
3	pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slicing	amod
4	slicing	slicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, he didn't carve anything, he just stood there looking at the empty dish

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 carve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carve	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carve	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 carve	advmod
6	carve	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 carve	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stood	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 stood	advmod
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carve	conj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stood	advmod
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stood	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 dish	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dish	det
16	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dish	amod
17	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not carve	past · do-support	he	anything			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	stand	past	he		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	gerund	he not said here			at the empty dish	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dish=Theme

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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