Test 4 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu, part 63: the princess drops…

Why'd the two brothers have it in for Ciccu, like proper gutted?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: two brothers · What happens: have in, gut · To what, where: it

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 have	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brothers	nummod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gutted	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	6 have	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 Ciccu	case
10	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 have	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gutted	punct
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 gutted	mark
13	proper	properly	ADV	_	14 gutted	advmod
14	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in	would	the two brothers	it				for Ciccu	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	gut	participle						properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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

He stole the gold they had wanted to keep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wanted	aux
7	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 gold	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 keep	mark
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	steal	past	He	the gold	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme
2	want	past · perfect	they	the gold not said here	tree rules
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the gold not said here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He got the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	the gold					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus

Option 3

He beat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	He	them = they					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He won when they wanted him to lose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 wanted	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 won	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lose	mark
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	win	past	He		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	past	they	him = he	tree rules
3	lose not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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