Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a…

what's the shoe with the silver buckle for?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: shoe · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shoe	det
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 buckle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buckle	det
7	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 buckle	amod
8	buckle	buckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoe	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	8 buckle	case
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the shoe with the silver buckle						tree rules

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

to show the robbers he has stolen something from a rich traveller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stolen	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stolen	aux
7	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 robbers	acl:relcl
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 stolen	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 traveller	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 traveller	det
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 traveller	amod
12	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive		the robbers					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent robber=Recipient
2	steal	present · perfect	he	something		a rich traveller			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent something=Theme from traveller=Source

Option 2

to lure the man off the road so the boy can steal his ox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 lure	mark
2	lure	lure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lure	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lure	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 steal	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steal	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 steal	aux
12	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lure	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ox	nmod:poss
14	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lure	to-infinitive		the man				off the road	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	steal	can	the boy	boy's ox					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ox=Theme

Option 3

to mark the path back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 mark	mark
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 path	det
4	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mark	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 mark	advmod
6	home	home	ADV	_	2 mark	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark back	to-infinitive		the path				home property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent path=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to lure the man off the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 lure	mark
2	lure	lure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lure	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lure	to-infinitive		the man				off the road	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

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