Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

How did the Thief fool the guards at the vault?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Thief · What happens: fool · To what, where: guards, vault

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1517 «Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen, part 14: the thieves are caught, and the Black Thief tells two tales to save his neck» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 fool	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fool	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Thief	det
4	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fool	nsubj
5	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guards	det
7	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fool	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 vault	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vault	det
10	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fool	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past · do-support	the Thief	the guards		the vault			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=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 · ← Mova's choice

He carried the corpse oot

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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oot	det
4	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 oot	compound
5	oot	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	He	the corpse oot					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oot=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He held the dead man up

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 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
6	up	up	ADV	_	2 held	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	He	the dead man					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme

Option 3

He hid behind him

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 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He					behind him = he	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location

Option 4

He lay doon

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 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	doon	doon	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	He					doon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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