Test 13 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines…

Did the Prince actually nick the White Cat's bracelet?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: nick · To what, where: Prince

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1451 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines with the White Cat and goes home with a tiny dog» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Prince	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 nick	obl
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 nick	advmod
5	nick	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cat	det
7	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Cat	compound
8	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bracelet	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Cat	case
10	bracelet	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nick	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	present		the Prince				actually property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bracelet=Patient

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

Yeah, he took it and ran off home, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt
9	home	home	ADV	_	7 ran	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	it				bruv obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	run off	past	he not said here					home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he nicked it and ran off, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nicked	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	he	it				mate vocative	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	run off	past	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he stole it, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stole	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stole	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stole	nsubj
4	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stole	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	he	it				bruv obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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

Nah, he only looked at the portrait inside it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 looked	advmod
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 portrait	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 portrait	det
8	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	he					inside portrait; at the portrait	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at portrait=Theme

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