Test 14 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

Deadass, how did the thief get the Governor's horses?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Deadass · What happens: do, get · To what, where: thief, horses

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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	Deadass	Deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Deadass	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thief	det
6	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Governor	det
9	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 horses	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Governor	case
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the thief					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Eventuality
2	get	present	Deadass	the Governor's horses					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=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

he sold the horses back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sold	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 sold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell back	past	he	the horses					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

stole them from the boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stole	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 boys	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past		them = they				from the boys	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from boy=Source

Option 3

he sneaked in and stole them from the sleeping boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sneaked	nsubj
2	sneaked	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 sneaked	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stole	cc
5	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sneaked	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stole	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 boys	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boys	det
9	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boys	compound
10	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak in	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	steal	past	he not said here	them = they				from the sleeping boys	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from boy=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he took them by force

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 force	case
5	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	them = they				by force	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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