Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, par…

The bird only ate one crumb all winter?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: eat · To what, where: one crumb

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 833 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, part 44: Inge is freed as a little bird, does good deeds all winter, and turns white» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 crumb	nummod
6	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 winter	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl:unmarked
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the bird	one crumb			winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient

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, it gave the rest away to the sparrows

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sparrows	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sparrows	det
10	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obl

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

Option 2

Yeah, it gave the rest away to the sparrows and the pigeons and the cats in the village

The tree, 18 words

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sparrows	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sparrows	det
10	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pigeons	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pigeons	det
13	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sparrows	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cats	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cats	det
16	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sparrows	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 village	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 village	det
19	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past	it	the rest	the sparrows and the pigeons and the cats	the village		away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to sparrow=Recipient

Option 3

Nope, it shared with the huckster's cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 shared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	with	with	ADP	_	9 cat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 huckster	det
7	huckster	huckster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cat	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 huckster	case
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	past	it					with the huckster's cat	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it gave the rest away to the sparrows, then flew off to the sea and ate fish

The tree, 18 words

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sparrows	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sparrows	det
10	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flew	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 flew	advmod
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 flew	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flew	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past	it	the rest	the sparrows		away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to sparrow=Recipient
2	fly off	past				then	to the sea result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result
3	eat	past		fish				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

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