Test 11 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 17: the youth tricks t…

did the old lady get the robbers' stuff?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get · To what, where: old lady

This is test 11 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lady	aux
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	5 get	obl
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 robbers	det
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stuff	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 robbers	case
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present		the old lady					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stuff=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, the youth loaded it on horses and rode off with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 loaded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loaded	nsubj
5	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loaded	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 horses	case
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loaded	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rode	cc
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loaded	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 rode	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	load	past	the youth	it				on horses	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on horse=Destination
2	ride off	past	the youth not said here					with youth	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the youth loaded it on carts and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 loaded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loaded	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loaded	nsubj
5	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loaded	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 carts	case
8	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loaded	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 carts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	load	past	the youth	it		carts			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on cart=Destination
2	leave	participle	the youth not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nope, the robbers loaded it on horses and rode off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 loaded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loaded	nsubj
5	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loaded	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 horses	case
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loaded	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rode	cc
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loaded	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 rode	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	load	past	the robbers	it				on horses	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on horse=Destination
2	ride off	past	the robbers not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nope, the youth loaded it on horses and rode off with it before the robbers could return

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 loaded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loaded	nsubj
5	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loaded	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 horses	case
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loaded	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rode	cc
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loaded	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 rode	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rode	obl
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 return	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 robbers	det
16	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 return	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 return	aux
18	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 rode	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	load	past	the youth	it	on horses	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on horse=Destination
2	ride off	past	the youth not said here		with youth	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	return	could	the robbers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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