Test 1 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

Ava: «Suleiman fed all the animals and everyone said thanks, no cap.» (cap = a lie) Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Suleiman, everyone, lie · What happens: feed, say, put · To what, where: Ava, animals, thanks, cap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 96 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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

Sentence 1: Ava: «Suleiman fed all the animals and everyone said thanks, no cap.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct
4	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fed	nsubj
5	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ava	acl:relcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 animals	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	conj
12	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cap	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 cap	det
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thanks	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ava	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Ava	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed in a quote	past	Suleiman	Ava not said here	all animals				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	everyone	thanks and no cap					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=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.

Sentence 2: (cap = a lie) Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 =	nsubj
3	=	=	SYM	_	7 Put	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Put	nsubj
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct
7	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Put	obj
9	right	right	ADV	_	7 Put	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	infinitive	a lie	cap				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1

They all said thanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 said	nsubj:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	participle · passive		They					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

Option 2

Everyone thanked him, and the Animals ate the great dinner up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ate	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ate	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Animals	det
7	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dinner	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dinner	amod
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	8 ate	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	Everyone		him = he				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	eat up	past	the Animals	the great dinner					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One Animal from the sea ate it all and asked when dinner was ready

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Animal	nummod
2	Animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Animal	nmod
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ate	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ate	conj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 ready	advmod
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ready	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ready	cop
14	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 asked	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	One Animal from the sea	sea		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	One Animal from the sea not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	dinner		ready property	tree rules

Option 4

The Animals all thanked him very politely for dinner, every one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Animals	det
2	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thanked	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 thanked	advmod
4	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thanked	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 politely	advmod
7	politely	politely	ADV	_	4 thanked	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dinner	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the Animals		him = he			for dinner; all, politely property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for dinner=Attribute

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