Test 11 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…
Wait, so how did the robbers feel about the trick?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, robbers · What happens: wait, do, feel
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 did | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 robbers | det |
| 7 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | parataxis |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 trick | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trick | det |
| 11 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feel | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | the robbers | about the trick | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about trick=Location |
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
Very angry and eager to get revenge on Joseph at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 angry | advmod |
| 2 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 eager | cc |
| 4 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 angry | conj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eager | xcomp |
| 7 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Joseph | case |
| 9 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | revenge | Joseph | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme on joseph=Source |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Fed up and ready for revenge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Fed | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ready | cc |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Fed | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 revenge | case |
| 6 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed up | participle | for revenge | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Impressed and wanting to learn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Impressed | impressed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wanting | cc |
| 3 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Impressed | conj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 learn | mark |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanting | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | gerund | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | learn not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Amused
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amused | amused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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