Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…

Nan says famine means what, like, in proper words?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nan, famine · What happens: say, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 means	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	4 means	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 words	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 words	case
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 words	amod
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 means	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Nan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present	famine						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Being really hungry, like when there is no food at all in the land

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hungry	cop
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 hungry	advmod
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 food	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	10 food	case
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 is	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 food	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hungry	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 food	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						hungry property	tree rules
2	is	present				all		like no food	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Being really hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hungry	cop
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 hungry	advmod
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

Being really thirsty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thirsty	cop
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 thirsty	advmod
3	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						thirsty property	tree rules

Option 4

Being really hungry for a very long time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hungry	cop
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 hungry	advmod
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hungry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund					time	hungry property	tree rules

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