Test 6 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu, part 63: the princess drops…

What's the deal with the bees and the fish and the eagle, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 bees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bees	det
7	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deal	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fish	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bees	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eagle	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eagle	det
13	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fish	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bruv	punct
15	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bees	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the bees and the fish and the eagle and bruv						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

They were all in trouble and Ciccu helped them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trouble	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trouble	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 trouble	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 trouble	case
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helped	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Ciccu	cc
7	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trouble	conj
8	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			trouble and Ciccu		all property	tree rules
2	help	past	trouble and Ciccu	them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

Option 2

Ciccu saved them from danger on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	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 saved	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 danger	case
5	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	Ciccu	them = they		danger		on the road	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from danger=Source

Option 3

They were all in trouble so Ciccu helped every one of them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trouble	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trouble	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 trouble	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 trouble	case
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 helped	mark
7	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 helped	nsubj
8	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trouble	advcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helped	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod
13	out	out	ADP	_	8 helped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			trouble		all property	tree rules
2	help out	past	Ciccu	every one of them					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary

Option 4

They were just lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					lazy property	tree rules

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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