Test 7 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl give…

What was the big drama with the bread?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big drama · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 681 «Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl gives the prince a castle, bread and a battle win» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drama	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drama	amod
5	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bread	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bread	det
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drama	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the big drama with the bread						tree rules

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

The king had ordered the bread baked by sunrise but nobody in the palace knew how

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ordered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ordered	aux
4	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	nsubj
7	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bread	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 sunrise	case
9	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 baked	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 nobody	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 sunrise	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 palace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 palace	det
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nobody	nmod
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ordered	ccomp
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ordered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	order	past · perfect	the king			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bake	participle		the bread not said here	sunrise	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	know	past	the bread			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

The army ran out of horses soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 army	det
2	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 horses	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 horses	case
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	obl
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the army					out horses; soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out horse=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No flour, so no bread for the army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 flour	det
2	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bread	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 bread	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flour	appos
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 army	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 army	det
9	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bread	nmod

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

Option 4

The king lost his favourite cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cook	nmod:poss
5	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cook	amod
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the king	king's favourite cook					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Eventuality

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