Test 10 · ★ · Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and…
So what's the vibe with Ciccu's brothers after he gets the job?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: be, get · To what, where: vibe, job
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 vibe | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 vibe | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 vibe | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vibe | det |
| 5 | vibe | vibe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 brothers | case |
| 7 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Ciccu | case |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 vibe | nmod |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 gets | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gets | nsubj |
| 12 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brothers | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 job | det |
| 14 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gets | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 vibe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the vibe | with Ciccu's brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Ciccu | the job | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=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
They laugh and mock him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laugh | nsubj |
| 2 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mock | cc |
| 4 | mock | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 laugh | conj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mock | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | They | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mock | present | They not said here | him = he | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 2
They are happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happy | cop |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | happy property | tree rules |
Option 3
They leave for the city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 city | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | They | for the city | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for city=Recipient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
They get jealous and plot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 get | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 plot | cc |
| 5 | plot | plot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | They | jealous property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | plot | present | They not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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