Test 4 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

Lowkey genius move, what did the captain do with his men's turns?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lowkey genius move, captain · What happens: do · To what, where: captain

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 move	compound
2	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	compound
3	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 captain	det
8	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 captain	acl:relcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 turns	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 men	nmod:poss
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 turns	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 men	case
14	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Lowkey genius move	the captain					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Eventuality
2	do	present	the captain not said here					with move's men's turns	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

He kept the donkey for his own first turn and told them nothing at all about it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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	2 kept	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 turn	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 turn	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turn	amod
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 turn	amod
9	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 told	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	fixed
15	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 told	advmod
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He	the donkey				for donkey's own first turn	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	He not said here	nothing	them = they			about turn; all property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient nothing=Topic

Option 2

He took the donkey first and said nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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	2 took	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 took	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	He		the donkey			first property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument donkey=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	He not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 3

He kept the donkey first and told his men nothing about the coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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	2 kept	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 kept	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nothing	nmod:poss
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nothing	nsubj
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 told	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 coins	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coins	det
13	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He	the donkey				first property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	He not said here	nothing				about the coins	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient about coin=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He kept the donkey first and told them nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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	2 kept	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 kept	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He	the donkey				first property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	He not said here	nothing	them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient nothing=Topic

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