Test 3 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a…

innit the old lady got nicked as a kid?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: innit, nick · To what, where: old lady

This is test 3 · ★ 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	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nicked	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nicked	aux:pass
6	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 innit	ccomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 kid	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kid	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nicked	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	nick	past · passive		the old lady				as a kid	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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, she was snatched from her farm at seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 snatched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 snatched	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snatched	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snatched	aux:pass
5	snatched	snatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 farm	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 farm	nmod:poss
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snatched	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 seven	case
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 snatched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snatch	past · passive		she		her farm		at seven	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from farm=Source

Option 2

nah, she was born like that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 born	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 born	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 born	aux:pass
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		she				like that	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the robbers took her when she was little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 little	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 little	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 little	cop
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the robbers		her = she				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
2	is	past	she					little property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, she's been there since she was grown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 there	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	10 grown	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grown	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grown	aux:pass
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 there	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					there property	tree rules
2	grow	past · passive		she					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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