Test 13 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

Right, what did the robbers swear to do at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robbers · What happens: do, swear · To what, where: end

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robbers	det
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swear	nsubj
7	swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 swear	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	swear	present	the robbers		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	to-infinitive	the robbers not said here	at the end	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 · ← Mova's choice

Catch Joseph and hang him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Catch	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hang	cc
4	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Catch	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	Joseph					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joseph=Theme
2	hang	infinitive	you not said here	Joseph					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Get revenge on Joseph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Joseph	case
4	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl

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

Option 3

Get their revenge on Joseph by ruining his whole family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 revenge	nmod:poss
3	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Joseph	case
5	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 ruining	mark
7	ruining	ruin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Get	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 family	nmod:poss
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 family	amod
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ruining	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	their revenge	Joseph	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme on joseph=Source
2	ruin	gerund	you not said here	Joseph's whole family		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient
3	revenge		their = they			nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Get revenge on Joseph and his wife for the trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Joseph	case
4	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wife	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Joseph	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 trick	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trick	det
10	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	nmod

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

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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