Test 12 · ★ · German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings ho…
did Peter give the sad guy some food?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: give · To what, where: sad guy
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 688 «German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings home a barrel of gold and meets a sad young lover» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guy | det |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 guy | amod |
| 6 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 food | det |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · do-support | Peter | the sad guy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent guy=Recipient 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 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, he gave him some bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 bread | det |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | he | some bread | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he invited him to sup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 invited | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invited | nsubj |
| 4 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invited | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sup | mark |
| 7 | sup | sup | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 invited | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | he | him = he | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sup not said to happen | to-infinitive | him = he not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
nah, he didn't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
yeah, he shared his cheese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 shared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shared | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shared | nsubj |
| 4 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 cheese | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shared | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | he | his cheese | tree rules |
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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