Test 12 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu, part 63: the princess drops…
Did the king ever find out the Man-eater was really in the coffin?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Man eater · What happens: do, find out, be · To what, where: king, coffin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 find | advmod |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 king | parataxis |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 find | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eater | det |
| 8 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eater | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Man | punct |
| 10 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coffin | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 coffin | cop |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 coffin | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 coffin | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coffin | det |
| 15 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | find out | infinitive | ever | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Man eater | the coffin | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he saw him and locked the lid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 locked | cc |
| 7 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lid | det |
| 9 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 locked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | he | him = he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lock | past | he not said here | the lid | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient |
Option 2
Yeah, he saw Ciccu and opened it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 opened | cc |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 opened | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | he | Ciccu | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ciccu=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | open | past | he not said here | it | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, he thought it was Ciccu, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Ciccu | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Ciccu | cop |
| 7 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ciccu | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | Ciccu | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, he saw him and locked the lid, then he got nicked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 locked | cc |
| 7 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lid | det |
| 9 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 locked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nicked | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 nicked | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nicked | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 nicked | aux:pass |
| 14 | nicked | nick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | he | him = he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lock | past | he not said here | the lid | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient | ||||
| 3 | nick | past · passive | he | then | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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