Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win the…

so the frog ate off her plate and slept on her pillow?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frog · What happens: eat, sleep · To what, where: plate, pillow

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 735 «Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win their war, and a frog bargains with a princess» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 plate	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 plate	nmod:poss
7	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slept	cc
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 pillow	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pillow	nmod:poss
12	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slept	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the frog			frog's plate			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent off plate=Source
2	sleep	past	the frog not said here			frog's pillow			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he did both, tbh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
7	tbh	tbh	ADV	_	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	both				tbh property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Eventuality

Option 2

yeah, he did both of those things, and she wasn't happy about it at all, tbh

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 did	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 things	case
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 things	det
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 both	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 happy	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 happy	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 happy	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 happy	cop
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 happy	advmod
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	conj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 happy	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 happy	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tbh	punct
20	tbh	tbh	ADV	_	4 did	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	both					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Eventuality
2	not is	past	she			all		about it; happy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he ate off her golden plate and then slept right on her pillow, tbh

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	8 plate	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 plate	nmod:poss
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plate	amod
8	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slept	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 slept	advmod
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
12	right	right	ADV	_	11 slept	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 pillow	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pillow	nmod:poss
15	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tbh	punct
17	tbh	tbh	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he			her golden plate		tbh property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent off plate=Source
2	sleep	past	he not said here			her pillow	then	right property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, he only ate, tbh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
7	tbh	tbh	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod

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

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