Test 11 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu, part 63: the princess drops…

Was the horse actually helpful, or was he just a lazy mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse · What happens: be · To what, where: horse, lazy mate

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1674 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu, part 63: the princess drops her veil and ring, and Ciccu must fetch the veil» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 horse	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helpful	csubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 helpful	advmod
5	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 mate	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mate	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mate	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 mate	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mate	det
12	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mate	amod
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helpful	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 helpful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the horse					tree rules
2	is a	past	horse	a lazy mate					tree rules

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

Proper useless, bruv, he did nothing much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 useless	advmod
2	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 did	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 useless	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 did	obj
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Proper helpful, bruv, he sorted everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 helpful	advmod
2	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sorted	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helpful	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sorted	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sorted	nsubj
7	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 sorted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	past	he	everything					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he was dead lazy at first but then proper helpful, bruv, after that

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lazy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lazy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	aux
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lazy	amod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 lazy	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 helpful	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 helpful	advmod
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 helpful	amod
12	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lazy	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bruv	punct
14	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lazy	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 that	punct
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 lazy	obl

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

Option 4

Proper helpful, bruv, he sorted everything out on the whole trip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 helpful	advmod
2	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bruv	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 helpful	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sorted	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sorted	nsubj
7	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 sorted	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 sorted	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 trip	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trip	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trip	amod
13	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sorted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past	helpful bruv	everything		the whole trip			vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

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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