Test 2 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a…

wait, who lives in the creepy house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, live · To what, where: creepy house

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lives	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lives	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present				the creepy house			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

a mad old lady and a crew of robbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lady	det
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 crew	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crew	det
7	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lady	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 robbers	case
9	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crew	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a mad old lady, her dog, and a crew of robbers who hide their loot in the cellar

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lady	det
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dog	punct
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dog	nmod:poss
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lady	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crew	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 crew	det
11	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lady	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 robbers	case
13	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crew	nmod
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 hide	nsubj
15	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 robbers	acl:relcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 loot	nmod:poss
17	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hide	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 cellar	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cellar	det
20	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	robbers	robbers's loot		the cellar			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent loot=Patient in cellar=Location
2	loot		robbers = robber						nom loot «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

a mad old lady and a whole crew of nasty robbers who steal oxen from the village

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	4 lady	det
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crew	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crew	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crew	amod
8	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lady	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 robbers	case
10	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 robbers	amod
11	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crew	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 steal	nsubj
13	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 robbers	acl:relcl
14	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 steal	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 village	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 village	det
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 steal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present	nasty robbers	oxen		the village			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ox=Theme from village=Source

Option 4

a poor family of woodcutters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 family	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 family	amod
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 woodcutters	case
5	woodcutters	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 family	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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