Test 10 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

Dude, what did the wife send the dog to do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife, Dude · What happens: send, do · To what, where: Dude

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 send	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 send	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 send	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 send	nsubj
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dude	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 send	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 send	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · do-support	the wife	Dude					tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Dude not said here						vn act-114-1 «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

Go to the vineyard and call Joseph back to the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 vineyard	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vineyard	det
4	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 call	cc
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
7	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 call	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			the vineyard			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to vineyard=Initial_Location
2	call back speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	Joseph	the house				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joseph=Topic to house=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Bring back the stolen money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Bring	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 money	det
4	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 money	amod
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	imperative	you not said here	the stolen money					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	steal	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Call Joseph from the vineyard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 vineyard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vineyard	det
5	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	Joseph		the vineyard			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent joseph=Theme from vineyard=Source

Option 4

Run to the vineyard and bark loudly to fetch Joseph home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 vineyard	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vineyard	det
4	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bark	cc
6	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vineyard	conj
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fetch	mark
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Run	advcl
10	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 home	compound
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here					to the vineyard and bark result; loudly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to vineyard=Result
2	fetch	to-infinitive	you not said here	Joseph home					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

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