Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

Whit wis the knight's big plan fer the lads?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: wi · To what, where: big plan fer

This is test 3 · ★ 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 wis	nsubj
2	wis	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knight	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fer	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 knight	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fer	amod
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fer	compound
8	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wis	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lads	det
10	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wis	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wis	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wi	present	Whit	the knight's big plan fer					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Let them go, but first mak them pay for the gold they stole fae the palace

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pay	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 pay	cc
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 mak	amod
7	mak	mak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mak	obj
9	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 gold	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gold	det
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stole	nsubj
14	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gold	acl:relcl
15	fae	fae	X	Foreign=Yes	17 palace	dep
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 palace	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	them = they		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	them = they not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pay	present		first mak	for the gold; the palace obl	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for gold=Theme
4	steal	past	they	the gold not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme

Option 2

Boil them, one efter the other, startin wi the eldest in the pot

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Boil	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 efter	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 efter	nummod
5	efter	efter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Boil	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 efter	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 startin	punct
9	startin	startin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 efter	conj
10	wi	wi	ADP	_	12 eldest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eldest	det
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Boil	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pot	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pot	det
15	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eldest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	imperative	you not said here	them = they				one efter and startin obl	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Boil them, one efter the other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Boil	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 efter	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 efter	nummod
5	efter	efter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Boil	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 efter	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	imperative	you not said here	them = they				one efter obl	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Haud them in the cells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Haud	Haud	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Haud	flat
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cells	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cells	det
5	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Haud	nmod

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

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