Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

How did the Thief get oot o the tree, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Thief · What happens: be, get · To what, where: oot

This is test 6 · ★ 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 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Thief	det
4	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 like	advcl
6	oot	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
7	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						how property	tree rules
2	get	present	the Thief	oot				of the tree	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oot=Stimulus

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

A bell rang an' he ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bell	det
2	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rang	nsubj
3	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ran	det
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ran	nsubj
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rang	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	a bell						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He climbed 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 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	doon	doon	ADV	_	2 climbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	He					doon property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The sun came up an' they left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 left	det
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the sun						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The cock crew and the witches vanished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crew	det
2	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crew	compound
3	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vanished	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 witches	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witches	det
6	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crew	conj
7	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	the cock crew and the witches						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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