Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

What did Peter do with bread for hungry folk?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: do

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 bread	case
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 folk	case
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 folk	amod
9	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Peter					with bread; for hungry folk	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Threw it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Threw	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Threw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	past		it					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Gave it all away to the poor folk at the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gave	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 it	det
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Gave	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 folk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 folk	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 folk	amod
8	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gave	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past		it	the poor folk	the door		away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to folk=Recipient

Option 3

Shared the loaves with every hungry beggar in the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 loaves	det
3	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shared	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 beggar	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 beggar	det
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beggar	amod
7	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shared	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beggar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	participle		the loaves				with every hungry beggar in the town	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Gave it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gave	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past		it				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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