Test 5 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik ou…

Did Peronnik nick the golden bowl or did he just find it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peronnik · What happens: nick, find · To what, where: golden bowl, bowl

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1320 «Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik outwits the lion, the dragons and the black man, then takes the golden bowl and diamond lance from Rogear» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nick	aux
2	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 nick	nsubj
3	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bowl	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bowl	amod
6	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nick	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 find	advmod
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nick	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 nick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · do-support	Peronnik	the golden bowl					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient
2	find	past · do-support	Peronnik	bowl					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He bought it from the lady's maid

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 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 maid	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 maid	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 lady	case
8	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	He	it				from the lady's maid	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from maid=Source

Option 2

He got it from the cellar with the flower and a lance

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 cellar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cellar	det
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 flower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flower	det
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lance	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lance	det
12	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flower	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	it		the cellar		with the flower and a lance	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from cellar=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He got it from the cellar with the flower

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 cellar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cellar	det
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 flower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flower	det
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	it		the cellar		with the flower	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from cellar=Source

Option 4

He got it from the cellar with the flower that laughs

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 cellar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cellar	det
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 flower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flower	det
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cellar	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 laughs	nsubj
11	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 flower	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	it		the cellar with the flower			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from cellar=Source
2	laugh	present	the flower						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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