Test 5 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu, part 63: the princess drops…

Did Ciccu really say his own mate was dead to the Man-eater?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciccu, own mate · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mate	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mate	amod
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dead	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 eater	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eater	det
12	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eater	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Man	punct
14	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dead	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Ciccu						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Ciccu's own mate					to the Man eater; dead property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said Ciccu was dead, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Ciccu					dead property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he said Ciccu was dead, innit, and then he crept off

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	INTJ	_	7 dead	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crept	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 crept	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 crept	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 crept	nsubj
14	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 crept	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Ciccu		dead property	tree rules
3	creep off	past	Ciccu	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, mate, he said Ciccu was actually alive and well upstairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 alive	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 alive	cop
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 alive	advmod
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 upstairs	cc
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 upstairs	advmod
13	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	10 alive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Ciccu					actually, alive property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he told the Man-eater he was lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lying	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eater	det
6	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eater	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Man	punct
8	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lying	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lying	aux
11	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he	the Man eater					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eater=Recipient
2	lie	past · progressive	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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