Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

Whit did the Thief dae wi the bundle, then?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do · To what, where: Thief

This is test 8 · ★ 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	dae	dae	X	Foreign=Yes	4 Thief	dep
6	wi	wi	ADP	_	8 bundle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bundle	det
8	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 did	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	the Thief			then	wi the bundle	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

Left it by the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Left	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past		it				by the door	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by door=Location

Option 2

Left it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Left	obj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Took it fer himsel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Took	obj
3	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 himsel	amod
4	himsel	himsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme himsel=Destination

Option 4

Gied it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gied	gi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gied	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Gied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gi back	past		it					tree rules

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