Test 12 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a…

and the last ox, does the man sell it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: last ox · What happens: sell · To what, where: it

This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sell	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ox	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ox	amod
4	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sell	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ox	punct
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sell	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sell	nsubj
9	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sell	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present · do-support	the last ox	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

nah, he's gonna keep it for ploughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	cop
5	gonna	gonna	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ploughing	case
9	ploughing	ploughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					for ploughing; keep property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, he's off to sell it at market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 sell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sell	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sell	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 off	cop
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 sell	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sell	mark
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sell	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 market	case
10	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive	he	it		market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at market=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he wants to keep it for himself and his wife to use on the farm

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 keep	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wife	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 himself	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 use	mark
14	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wife	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 farm	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 farm	det
17	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	he				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it		for himself = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	use	to-infinitive	he not said here		the farm		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he wants to sell it for good money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sell	mark
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sell	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 money	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 money	amod
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it				for good money	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for money=Asset

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