Test 9 · ★ · Tales for Young Folks, The Barmecide Feast, part 15: poor…

did the king get a drink from the spring then?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: get · To what, where: drink

This is test 9 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 drink	det
6	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 spring	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spring	det
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 get	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

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

Nah, the water was foul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 foul	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foul	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 foul	cop
6	foul	foul	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the water					foul property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, the spring had a huge dead snake lying in the pool at the bottom

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spring	det
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snake	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 snake	amod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 snake	amod
9	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
10	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 snake	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pool	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pool	det
13	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lying	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 bottom	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bottom	det
16	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the spring	a huge dead snake					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient
2	lie	gerund	a huge dead snake not said here			the pool		at the bottom	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pool=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the snake was in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 snake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 it	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						in snake	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he drank deep from the clear water before the hawk came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 drank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drank	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	deep	deep	ADV	_	4 drank	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
8	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drank	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hawk	det
12	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drank	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	he			the clear water		deep property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from water=Source
2	come back	past	the hawk						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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