Test 2 · ★ · Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: t…

Did the Thief actually get his hip chopped by the giant, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Thief · What happens: get, chop · To what, where: hip

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1518 «Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: the Thief's last tale saves the youngest prince» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Thief	det
3	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hip	nmod:poss
7	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hip	acl
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 giant	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chopped	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
13	like	like	INTJ	_	5 get	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 real	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 real	case
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the Thief	Thief's hip				actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hip=Stimulus
2	chop	participle		Thief's hip not said here				giant property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

yeah, his leg was cut off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 leg	nmod:poss
4	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux:pass
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past · passive		his leg					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, the giant chopped off half his hip by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chopped	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	nsubj
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 chopped	compound:prt
7	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 hip	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hip	nmod:poss
9	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 mistake	case
11	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past	the giant	giant's hip				by mistake	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hip=Patient by mistake=Location

Option 3

yeah, the giant really did chop half his hip off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 chop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chop	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chop	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 chop	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chop	aux
7	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	10 hip	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hip	nmod:poss
10	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chop	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	7 chop	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past · do-support	the giant	his hip					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hip=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, half his hip was cut off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 hip	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hip	nmod:poss
5	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cut	aux:pass
7	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 cut	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past · passive		his hip					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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