Test 2 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

Was the old hag proper dodgy, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: old hag · What happens: be, innit

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dodgy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hag	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hag	amod
4	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dodgy	nsubj
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 dodgy	advmod
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 dodgy	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dodgy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old hag					dodgy, properly property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

She fooled the lads into leaving work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fooled	nsubj
2	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lads	det
4	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fooled	obj
5	into	into	SCONJ	_	6 leaving	mark
6	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fooled	advcl
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past	She	the lads					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient
2	leave	gerund	She not said here	work					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She tricked the lads into skiving all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lads	det
4	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tricked	obj
5	into	into	SCONJ	_	6 skiving	mark
6	skiving	skive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tricked	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skiving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	She	the lads					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient
2	skive	gerund	She not said here				day		tree rules

Option 3

She tricked the lads into staying late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lads	det
4	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tricked	obj
5	into	into	SCONJ	_	6 staying	mark
6	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tricked	advcl
7	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 staying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	She	the lads					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient
2	stay	gerund	She not said here					late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

She tricked the lads into skiving all day and then fed them nothing at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lads	det
4	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tricked	obj
5	into	into	SCONJ	_	6 skiving	mark
6	skiving	skive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tricked	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skiving	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fed	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 fed	advmod
11	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tricked	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fed	obj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 fed	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	trick	past	She	the lads			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient
2	skive	gerund	She not said here			day	tree rules
3	feed	past	She not said here	lads = lad	all	then	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient nothing=Theme

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