Test 9 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…

deadass, what did the king say the rich field would feed?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, rich field · What happens: say, feed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 field	det
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 field	amod
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feed	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 feed	aux
12	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the king					deadass vocative	tree rules
2	feed	would	the rich field						vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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

more grain than the barns held

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grain	amod
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	5 barns	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 barns	det
5	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grain	nmod
6	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 barns	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle		the barns not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

more bread than people could eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 bread	amod
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 eat	mark
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bread	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	could	people	more bread not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

all the people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 people	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

more meat than they could carry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 meat	amod
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 carry	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carry	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 meat	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	could	they	more meat not said here					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme

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