Test 5 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

So sus, what did the captain do to his wife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: captain · What happens: do

This is test 5 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 sus	advmod
2	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 captain	det
7	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sus	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 wife	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the captain					to captain's wife	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

He hit her on the head

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 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	He	her = she				on the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on head=Patient

Option 2

He stabbed her

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 stabbed	nsubj
2	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	He	her = she					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3

He pushed her down the stairs

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 pushed	nsubj
2	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 pushed	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stairs	det
6	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pushed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push down	past	He	her = she					vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent she=Theme stair=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He stabbed her in the neck

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 stabbed	nsubj
2	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 neck	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 neck	det
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	He	her = she		the neck			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in neck=Location

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