Test 3 · ★ · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

lowkey, did the butter lion actually save the dinner?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: butter lion · What happens: save · To what, where: dinner

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 save	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 save	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
5	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lion	compound
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 save	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 save	advmod
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dinner	det
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 save	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past · do-support	the butter lion	the dinner				lowkey vocative; actually property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme

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

No, it was ruined

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 ruined	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ruined	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ruined	aux:pass
5	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	past · passive		it					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it saved the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 saved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saved	nsubj
4	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feast	det
6	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	it	the feast					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, the guests ate the lion and nobody noticed the statue at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guests	det
4	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 noticed	cc
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 noticed	nsubj
10	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 statue	det
12	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noticed	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 noticed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the guests	the lion					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient
2	notice	past	nobody	the statue		all			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer statue=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, it fed the guests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	nsubj
4	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guests	det
6	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	it		the guests				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Recipient

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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