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

Wait, how did the florins even fall out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, florins · What happens: wait, fall out

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	8 fall	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fall	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 florins	det
6	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fall	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 fall	advmod
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 fall	compound:prt
10	?	?	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	fall out	past · do-support	the florins						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 donkey rolled over in the mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 donkey	acl
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 rolled	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mud	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mud	det
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll over	participle		the donkey not said here		the mud		over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory

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

The donkey gave itself a shake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 gave	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shake	det
6	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the donkey	donkey					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient shake=Theme

Option 3

The donkey shook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shook	nsubj
3	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the donkey						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Someone bumped the old bag open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 bumped	nsubj
2	bumped	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bag	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bag	amod
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bumped	obj
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bumped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bump	past	Someone	the old bag				open property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient

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