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Test 12 · ★ · Far North Tales, The Fox and the Reindeer: the fox tricks…

Bruv, the fox is a right trickster, innit? What did he do to the Lapp's reindeer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox, you · What happens: be, innit, do · To what, where: right trickster

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1244 «Far North Tales, The Fox and the Reindeer: the fox tricks the Lapp, the fish and the asp» 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: Bruv, the fox is a right trickster, innit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 innit	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trickster	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trickster	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 trickster	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trickster	det
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trickster	amod
8	trickster	trickster	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fox	a right trickster					tree rules
2	innit	imperative	you not said here					Bruv vocative	tree rules

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 did he do to the Lapp's reindeer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 reindeer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Lapp	det
7	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 reindeer	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Lapp	case
9	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	fox					to the Lapp's reindeer	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

He got all the dead reindeer for himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 reindeer	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reindeer	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reindeer	amod
6	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	all dead reindeer				for himself = he	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme for himself=Source

Option 2

He got all the dead reindeer for himself, after blaming the bear and wolves for killing them in the snowy valley

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 reindeer	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reindeer	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reindeer	amod
6	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blaming	punct
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 blaming	mark
11	blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 got	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bear	det
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blaming	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wolves	cc
15	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bear	conj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 killing	mark
17	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 blaming	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 killing	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 valley	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 valley	det
21	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 valley	amod
22	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 killing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	all dead reindeer				for himself = he	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme for himself=Source
2	blame	gerund	He not said here	the bear and wolves					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
3	kill	gerund	He not said here	bear		the snowy valley			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He took the reindeer meat home alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meat	det
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meat	compound
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	He	the reindeer meat				alone, home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme

Option 4

He tricked the Lapp into giving him all the fish, bones, and reindeer skins, then left the Lapp with nothing but an empty sledge

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lapp	det
4	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tricked	obj
5	into	into	SCONJ	_	6 giving	mark
6	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tricked	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 giving	iobj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 fish	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giving	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bones	punct
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fish	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 left	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 left	cc
15	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 skins	compound
16	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 left	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 skins	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 left	advmod
19	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tricked	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Lapp	det
21	Lapp	lapp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 nothing	case
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 left	obl
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 sledge	cc
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sledge	det
26	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sledge	amod
27	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	He	the Lapp					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lapp=Patient
2	give	gerund	He not said here	all fish and bones	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient fish=Theme
3	leave	past	reindeer skins	the Lapp			then	with nothing	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent lapp=Recipient with nothing=Theme

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