Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

Wis the corpse already rifled when he got there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wis · What happens: rifle, get · To what, where: Wis

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wis	Wis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rifled	nsubj:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corpse	det
3	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rifled	nsubj:pass
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 rifled	advmod
5	rifled	rifle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rifled	advcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 got	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 rifled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rifle	participle · passive		Wis					vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location
2	get	past	Wis			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Aye, somebody had been there first an' the gold wis gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 there	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 wis	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wis	det
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 wis	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wis	det
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wis	compound
12	wis	wi	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 there	parataxis
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 wis	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	somebody					there property	tree rules
2	go	participle		a gold wis not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, somebody had been there first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 there	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 there	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	somebody					first, there property	tree rules

Option 3

Naw, the corpse wis still wrapped in its shroud an' the seal wis intact, but the lamp wis oot

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wrapped	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corpse	det
4	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrapped	nsubj:pass
5	wis	wi	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wrapped	aux:pass
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 wrapped	advmod
7	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 shroud	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shroud	nmod:poss
10	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrapped	obl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wis	det
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 wis	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 seal	det
14	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wis	nsubj
15	wis	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wrapped	advcl
16	intact	intact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wis	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 oot	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 oot	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lamp	det
20	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 oot	nsubj
21	wis	wis	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 oot	amod
22	oot	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	present · passive		Naw	corpse's shroud	still		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in shroud=Destination
2	wi	present	the seal				intact property	tree rules
3	oot		the lamp					tree rules

Option 4

Aye, the guards had been there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 guards	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 there	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 there	cop
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 guards	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the guards not said here					there property	tree rules

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