Test 10 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 17: the youth tricks t…

okay, that's a sick plan, so why do they call him Master Thief?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, they · What happens: be, call · To what, where: sick plan, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1520 «Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 17: the youth tricks the Governor with three hares and steals the roast joint» 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	okay	okay	INTJ	_	7 plan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 okay	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 plan	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plan	det
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plan	amod
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 call	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 call	advmod
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 call	advmod
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 call	aux
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 call	nsubj
13	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 plan	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 call	obj
15	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Thief	compound
16	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 call	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a sick plan					tree rules
2	call	present · do-support	they		him = he				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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

Cause he apprenticed with robbers and finished his time, so he knows every trick going

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 apprenticed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 apprenticed	nsubj
3	apprenticed	apprentice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 robbers	case
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 apprenticed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 finished	cc
7	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 apprenticed	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 time	nmod:poss
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finished	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knows	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 knows	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knows	nsubj
13	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 apprenticed	conj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 trick	det
15	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knows	obj
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 knows	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	apprentice	past	Cause			with robbers	vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	finish	past	Cause not said here		time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	know	present	Cause	every trick			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus
4	go	gerund	Cause not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he apprenticed with robbers and finished his time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 apprenticed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 apprenticed	nsubj
3	apprenticed	apprentice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 robbers	case
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 apprenticed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 finished	cc
7	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 apprenticed	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 time	nmod:poss
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finished	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apprentice	past	Cause					with robbers	vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	finish	past	Cause not said here				time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Cause he's a thief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 thief	case
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thief	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thief	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thief	det
5	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					cause a thief	tree rules

Option 4

Cause he apprenticed with a cook and left early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 apprenticed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 apprenticed	nsubj
3	apprenticed	apprentice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cook	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 apprenticed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 apprenticed	conj
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apprentice	past	Cause					with a cook	vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	leave	participle	Cause not said here					early property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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