Test 1 · ★ · Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and…

Dude, what did Ciccu actually whack the princess with to get his purse back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: whack, get back · To what, where: Dude, purse

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1673 «Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and a royal job» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 whack	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 whack	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 whack	aux
5	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 whack	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 whack	advmod
7	whack	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Dude	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whack	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 get	case
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 whack	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 purse	nmod:poss
14	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past · do-support	Ciccu	Dude				actually property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient princess=Result
2	get back	to-infinitive	Ciccu not said here	Ciccu's purse					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer purse=Stimulus

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

A thick stick hidden under his coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stick	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stick	amod
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stick	acl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 coat	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 coat	nmod:poss
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle		a thick stick not said here		his coat			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under coat=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A thick stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stick	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stick	amod
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A sharp knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knife	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knife	amod
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A thick iron bar taken from the stable door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bar	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bar	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bar	compound
4	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bar	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
8	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 door	amod
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	participle		a thick iron bar not said here		the stable door			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from door=Initial_Location

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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