Test 13 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

Whit did the Thief first spot in the vault?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do · To what, where: Thief, vault

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Thief	det
4	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 spot	advmod
6	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 vault	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vault	det
9	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	the Thief		the vault		spot obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Eventuality

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

A grey old priest by the stair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 priest	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 priest	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 priest	amod
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 stair	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stair	det
7	stair	stair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 priest	nmod

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

Option 2

A tall black figure at the vault entrance, the bishop's servant, wi a long cloak

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 figure	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figure	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figure	amod
4	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 entrance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 entrance	det
7	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entrance	compound
8	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figure	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 servant	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bishop	det
11	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 servant	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 bishop	case
13	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figure	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cloak	punct
15	wi	wi	X	Foreign=Yes	18 cloak	nsubj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cloak	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cloak	amod
18	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figure	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cloak		wi						tree rules

Option 3

A tall black man standing in the entrance wi a lamp in his hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 man	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 entrance	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 entrance	det
8	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
9	wi	wi	ADP	_	11 lamp	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lamp	det
11	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hand	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hand	nmod:poss
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	a tall black man not said here			the entrance		wi a lamp; in man's hand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in entrance=Location

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

A tall black man in the entrance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 entrance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 entrance	det
7	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod

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

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