Test 8 · ★ · Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and…

Mate, what did the old man promise the basket would bring?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: old man, basket · What happens: promise, bring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 promise	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	aux
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	8 promise	nsubj
8	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 basket	det
10	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bring	aux
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 promise	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	the old man					Mate vocative	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bring	would	the basket						vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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

Gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ill	ill	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Woe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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