Test 8 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

Real talk, what did the robbers want to do to Joseph?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robbers · What happens: do, want · To what, where: Real talk, Joseph

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
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 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Joseph	case
12	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past		Real talk		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Eventuality
2	want	present	the robbers			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the robbers not said here		Joseph	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 · ← Mova's choice

Take all his money and then punish him for his cunning deceit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 money	det:predet
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 money	nmod:poss
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 punish	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 punish	advmod
7	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 punish	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 deceit	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 deceit	nmod:poss
11	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deceit	amod
12	deceit	deceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 punish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	his money					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	punish	infinitive	you not said here	him = he			then	for his cunning deceit	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient for deceit=Theme

Option 2

Punish him severely for his cunning and his clever tricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Punish	obj
3	severely	severely	ADV	_	1 Punish	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 cunning	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cunning	nmod:poss
6	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Punish	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tricks	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tricks	nmod:poss
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tricks	amod
10	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cunning	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	imperative	you not said here	him = he				for his cunning and his clever tricks; severely property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient for cunning=Theme
2	trick		his = he						nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Take back all the money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 money	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	imperative	you not said here	all money					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Punish him for his cunning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Punish	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 cunning	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cunning	nmod:poss
5	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Punish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	imperative	you not said here	him = he				for his cunning	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient for cunning=Theme

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