Test 12 · ★ · Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and…

Okay but why did Ciccu get so mad at the princess?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: get

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 get	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Okay	conj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 mad	advmod
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mad	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Ciccu					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

She threw his basket out of the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 basket	nmod:poss
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 window	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	She	his basket		the window			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent basket=Theme out window=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She kept his purse, ignored him, and told the king lies about him

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 purse	nmod:poss
4	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ignored	punct
6	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ignored	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lies	nsubj
13	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 told	ccomp
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	She	his purse		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
2	ignore	past		him = he		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lie	present	the king		about him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about he=Location

Option 3

She stole his purse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 purse	nmod:poss
4	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	She	his purse					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location purse=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She kept his purse and kept fobbing him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 purse	nmod:poss
4	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
7	fobbing	fob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fobbing	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 fobbing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	She	his purse	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
2	keep	past	She not said here		tree rules
3	fob off	gerund	She not said here	him = he	tree rules

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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