Test 3 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

No cap, why did the robbers buy the donkey for fifty gold pieces?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, robbers · What happens: do, buy · To what, where: donkey

This is test 3 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 cap	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 robbers	det
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 buy	nsubj
8	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 donkey	det
10	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buy	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 pieces	case
12	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pieces	nummod
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pieces	compound
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 buy	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap						tree rules
2	buy	present	the robbers	the donkey				for fifty gold pieces	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme for piece=Beneficiary

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

They thought the donkey was golden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 donkey	det
4	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 golden	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 golden	cop
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the donkey					golden property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They thought it was a golden donkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 donkey	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 donkey	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 donkey	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 donkey	amod
7	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a golden donkey					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They thought it was a golden donkey that made coins from its mane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 donkey	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 donkey	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 donkey	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 donkey	amod
7	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 donkey	acl:relcl
10	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 mane	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mane	nmod:poss
13	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a golden donkey		tree rules
3	make	past	a golden donkey	coins	donkey's mane	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset coin=Product from mane=Material

Option 4

They believed the donkey made gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 donkey	det
4	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 believed	ccomp
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coins	compound
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	They						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make	past	the donkey	gold coins					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Product

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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