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★★ Léa's «wolf's hunger», Grandad's «I could eat a horse», and Mei's cousin's «hungry to death». What do all three mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, Léa, three mean · What happens: eat, hunger, be · To what, where: horse

This is test 8 of lesson 53 «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» of the language 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: ★★ Léa's «wolf's hunger», Grandad's «I could eat a horse», and Mei's cousin's «hungry to death».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 eat	nsubj
2	★	★	PUNCT	_	8 hunger	punct
3	Léa	Léa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hunger	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Léa	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 hunger	punct
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunger	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wolf	case
8	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	appos
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 hunger	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Grandad	punct
11	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	conj
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Grandad	case
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 eat	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	aux
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 horse	det
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hungry	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hungry	cc
22	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 cousin	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Mei	case
24	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hungry	nsubj
25	's	's	PART	_	24 cousin	case
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 hungry	punct
27	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eat	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 death	case
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hungry	obl
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 hungry	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	could	★ and Grandad	a horse					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	hunger in a quote		Léa						nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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: What do all three mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 mean	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mean	nummod
5	mean	mean	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all three mean						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Scared of animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 animals	case
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scared	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Very hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 hungry	advmod
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Feeling ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Feeling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund						ill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

A bit peckish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peckish	obl:unmarked
3	peckish	peckish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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