Test 1 · ★ · Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the k…

Yo, so the dude at the fake feast, was he actually eating?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: eat

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 356 «Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the king naps under a tree and wakes at noon» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	14 eating	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	14 eating	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dude	det
5	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eating	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 feast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feast	det
8	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feast	amod
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dude	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dude	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eating	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eating	nsubj
13	actually	actually	ADV	_	14 eating	advmod
14	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 eating	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	the dude at the fake feast					actually property	vn eat-39.1-1 «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 ate every bite of the big feast that was laid out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bite	det
6	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 feast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feast	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feast	amod
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 laid	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laid	aux:pass
13	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 feast	acl:relcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 laid	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	past	he	every bite of the big feast	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient
2	lay out	past · passive		the big feast	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	bite			the big feast	nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Nah, he was starving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 starving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 starving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 starving	aux
5	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	he						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he just pretended

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pretended	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pretended	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 pretended	advmod
5	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	he						tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he was eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 eating	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eating	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eating	aux
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	he						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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