Test 1 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

Bro, did Joseph really buy a donkey with two of his four gold pieces?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Joseph · What happens: buy · To what, where: donkey

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1639 «Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 28: the robbers buy the donkey and the guitar and are fooled again» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 buy	aux
4	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 buy	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 buy	advmod
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 donkey	det
8	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 two	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 donkey	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 pieces	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pieces	nmod:poss
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 pieces	nummod
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pieces	compound
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 donkey	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 buy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past · do-support	Joseph	a donkey of Joseph's four gold pieces				with two; Bro vocative	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme

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

Yeah, two of them, then he rode home to Catania

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 two	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 rode	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 two	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rode	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 rode	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rode	nsubj
9	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 rode	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Catania	case
12	Catania	Catania	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he	two of them		Catania	then	home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to catania=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, he bought it with all four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 bought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bought	nsubj
4	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bought	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 four	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 four	det
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 bought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	he	it				with all four	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, but he rode it all the way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rode	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 rode	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rode	nsubj
5	rode	ride	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 rode	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	obl
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he	it				all way obl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

Option 4

Nah, he paid with three gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 coins	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 coins	nummod
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coins	compound
8	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he					with three gold coins	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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