Test 4 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 17: the youth tricks t…

did the robbers actually lose to him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robbers · What happens: do, lose · To what, where: him

This is test 4 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lose	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 lose	advmod
5	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lose	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	lose	present	the robbers		him = he			actually property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Nope, they still ran the whole crew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crew	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crew	amod
8	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	they	the whole crew			still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme crew=Trajectory

Option 2

Kinda, they had to admit he was top dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 admit	mark
6	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dog	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dog	cop
9	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 admit	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	they		kinda property	tree rules
2	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	they not said here			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	he	top dog		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Kinda, they had to admit he was top dog of the whole crew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 admit	mark
6	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dog	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dog	cop
9	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 admit	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 crew	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crew	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 crew	amod
14	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dog	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	they		kinda property	tree rules
2	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	they not said here			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	he	top dog	of the whole crew	tree rules

Option 4

Kinda, they had to admit he was top dog of the whole crew, though some of them still grumbled about it

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 admit	mark
6	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dog	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dog	cop
9	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 admit	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 crew	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crew	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 crew	amod
14	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dog	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grumbled	punct
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 grumbled	mark
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 grumbled	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 some	nmod
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 grumbled	advmod
21	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 grumbled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they			kinda property	tree rules
2	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	they not said here				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	he	top dog		of the whole crew	tree rules
4	grumble speech: other	past	some		still	about crew	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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