Test 7 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

Bruh, why did Joseph not sell the guitar?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Joseph · What happens: not sell · To what, where: guitar

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 sell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sell	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sell	aux
5	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sell	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sell	advmod
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guitar	det
9	guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sell	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sell	past · do-support	Joseph	the guitar					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guitar=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

He thought it was broken and useless

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 useless	cc
7	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 broken	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	break	past · passive		it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

He said that playing it again would kill his wife for good

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 kill	mark
4	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kill	csubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 playing	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 playing	advmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 kill	aux
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 good	case
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	play	gerund		it	again		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	kill	would	playing	his wife		for good	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted to keep it

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He said the wife would die for good

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 die	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 die	aux
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	would	the wife					for good	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for good=Theme

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