Test 10 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…

Did the sick Stag's mates bring him food, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mates · What happens: bring · To what, where: food, him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 371 «Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin hungry cat dresses up as a doctor» 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bring	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Stag	det
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Stag	amod
4	Stag	Stag	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mates	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Stag	case
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bring	nsubj
7	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bring	obj
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 bring	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · do-support	the sick Stag's mates	food	him = he				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination food=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, they ate all his food and left him to starve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 food	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 food	nmod:poss
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 left	cc
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 starve	mark
12	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 left	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	past	they	his food	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	leave	past	they not said here	him = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	starve	to-infinitive	they not said here		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they ate his food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj

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

Option 3

No, they left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, they fed him lots

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	nsubj
4	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	obj
6	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	they	lots	him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lot=Theme

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