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Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tricky comprehension

A cartoon says "Before Mia ate breakfast, she fed the cat" means breakfast came first. Fix it.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, Mia, breakfast, you · What happens: say, eat, feed, mean, come, fix · To what, where: breakfast, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the English 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: A cartoon says "Before Mia ate breakfast, she fed the cat" means breakfast came first.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
5	Before	before	SCONJ	_	7 ate	mark
6	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ate	nsubj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 means	csubj
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fed	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fed	nsubj
11	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ate	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cat	det
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fed	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
16	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 means	ccomp
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 came	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a cartoon						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat in a quote	past	Mia	breakfast					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
3	feed in a quote	past	Mia		the cat				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient
4	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	past	breakfast					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Fix it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fix	obj
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	cat					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Breakfast really came first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Breakfast					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Feeding the cat came first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feeding	obj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund			the cat				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient
2	come	past	Feeding					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The text doesn't say which

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	the text						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic

Option 4

Both happened at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Both						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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