Test 7 · ★ · Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and…

Bro, what did the old man do with Ciccu's figs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: do · To what, where: old man

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	acl:relcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 figs	case
10	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 figs	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Ciccu	case
12	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old man				Bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	do	infinitive	the old man not said here					with Ciccu's figs	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

Sold them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past		them = they					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Threw them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Threw	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Threw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	past		them = they					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Gave them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gave	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past		them = they				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ate half of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 Ate	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 half	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		half of them					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient

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