Test 11 · ★ · Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds

gonna throw my old bread to the ducks yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: throw · To what, where: old bread, ducks

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 228 «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» of the everyday 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	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 throw	dep
2	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bread	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bread	amod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throw	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ducks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ducks	det
8	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 throw	obl
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 throw	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 throw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	my old bread	the ducks				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bread=Theme to duck=Destination

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

Yes, bread is their best food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 food	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 food	cop
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 food	nmod:poss
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bread	their best food					tree rules

Option 2

Only if it's mouldy bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 bread	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 bread	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bread	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bread	cop
5	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bread	amod
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	mouldy bread					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, the more bread the better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 bread	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bread	det
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bread	amod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 better	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bread	amod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, bread makes them sick, give a little duck food or peas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 give	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	obj
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 makes	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
8	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 food	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 food	amod
11	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 food	compound
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 peas	cc
14	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	bread	them = they				sick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product
2	give	present		a little duck food or peas					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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