Exam question 4 · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a…

Which object did the youth deliberately leave upon the road to mislead the man?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, leave, mislead · To what, where: youth, road, man

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1519 «Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a man's ox with a shoe and a trick» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	_	7 leave	advmod
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 mislead	mark
12	mislead	mislead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 leave	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mislead	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the youth			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality
2	leave	present	which object not said here		the road	deliberately property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent upon road=Location
3	mislead	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the man			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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 · ← Mova's choice

a shoe fitted with a silver buckle and a bell so the man would hear it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shoe	det
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fitted	nsubj
3	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 buckle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 buckle	det
6	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 buckle	amod
7	buckle	buckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fitted	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bell	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bell	det
10	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buckle	conj
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	15 hear	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hear	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hear	aux
15	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fitted	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	participle	a shoe					with a silver buckle and a bell	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	hear	would	the man	shoe					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

a shoe fitted with a silver buckle that he had taken from the old woman's chest

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shoe	det
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shoe	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 buckle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 buckle	det
6	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 buckle	amod
7	buckle	buckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fitted	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 taken	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 taken	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 buckle	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	17 chest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chest	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 woman	case
17	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	participle		a shoe not said here				with a silver buckle	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	take	past · perfect	he	a silver buckle not said here		the old woman's chest			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent buckle=Theme from chest=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a shoe fitted with a silver buckle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shoe	det
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shoe	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 buckle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 buckle	det
6	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 buckle	amod
7	buckle	buckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fitted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	participle		a shoe not said here				with a silver buckle	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a boot decorated with copper studs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boot	det
2	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boot	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 studs	case
5	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 studs	compound
6	studs	stud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 decorated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decorate	participle		a boot not said here				with copper studs	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stud=Theme

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