Test 8 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu, part 63: the princess drops…

Why'd she chuck her veil on the floor and her ring in the stream?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: chuck · To what, where: veil, floor

This is test 8 · ★ 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	4 chuck	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chuck	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chuck	nsubj
4	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 veil	nmod:poss
6	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ring	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ring	nmod:poss
12	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floor	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 stream	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stream	det
15	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	would	she	her veil		the floor and her ring		in the stream	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent veil=Theme on floor=Destination

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

To make Ciccu come back for them, mate, cos she wanted him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
11	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 wanted	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 make	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		Ciccu	mate vocative	tree rules
2	come back	infinitive	Ciccu not said here		for them = they	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	want	past	Ciccu	him = he		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 2

She was just messy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 messy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 messy	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 messy	advmod
4	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To make Ciccu come back for them, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		Ciccu					tree rules
2	come back	infinitive	Ciccu not said here					for them = they; mate vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

To get Ciccu to return for them, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bruv	advcl
3	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 return	mark
5	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 get	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 return	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		Ciccu					tree rules
2	return	to-infinitive	Ciccu not said here					for them = they	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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