Test 1 · ★ · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

Dude, did the hermit actually want the guy to share his loot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude, hermit · What happens: do, want, share, loot · To what, where: hermit, guy, loot

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hermit	det
5	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 want	advmod
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hermit	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guy	det
9	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 share	mark
11	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 guy	acl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 loot	nmod:poss
13	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 share	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	the hermit		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermit=Eventuality
2	want	present	the hermit not said here	the guy	actually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot guy=Theme
3	share	to-infinitive	the hermit not said here	Dude's loot		tree rules
4	loot		Dude			nom loot «possession transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, half of all the treasure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 half	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 treasure	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 treasure	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 treasure	det
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 half	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

yeah, a third of the loot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 third	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 third	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 third	det
4	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 loot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 loot	det
7	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 third	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

nah, he kept it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

nah, he wanted every single coin he had found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 coin	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coin	amod
7	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 coin	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	every single coin					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot coin=Theme
2	find	past · perfect	he	every single coin not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Topic

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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