Test 11 · ★ · The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white…

did the moths eat up the feathers as well, like the grouse ones

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moths · What happens: eat up · To what, where: feathers

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 646 «The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white feathers, a moth army, and a melting dragon» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moths	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moths	det
3	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 eat	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feathers	det
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
8	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	4 eat	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 as	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ones	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 ones	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ones	det
13	grouse	grouse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ones	amod
14	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	present	the moths	the feathers				like the grouse ones	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

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

yes, the moths ate all the grouse feathers and then the dwarfs as well

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moths	det
4	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 feathers	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feathers	det
8	grouse	grouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feathers	compound
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dwarfs	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 dwarfs	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dwarfs	det
13	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	conj
14	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	5 ate	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the moths	all grouse feathers					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

Option 2

yes, they ate the feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feathers	det
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no, the moths ate the dwarfs

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 moths	det
4	moths	moth	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 dwarfs	det
7	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj

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

Option 4

no, they ate the snow

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snow	det
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj

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

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