Test 7 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the o…

Proper skint, Don Giovanni, yeah? what happened to his cash?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Don · What happens: happen, cash

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1675 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the oven» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 skint	advmod
2	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Don	punct
4	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 skint	vocative
5	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Don	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 skint	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 skint	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 skint	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happened	nsubj
10	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 skint	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 cash	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cash	nmod:poss
13	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 happened	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 skint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to Don's cash	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cash		Don						nom cash «possession transitive»: poss=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 gave it away

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past	he	it				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

he threw it all into the river one night

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 it	det
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 night	nummod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	it			night	into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into river=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he spent it all

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 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	he	it					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

Option 4

he gave every coin to his cousins and friends

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 coin	det
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 cousins	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cousins	nmod:poss
7	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 friends	cc
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cousins	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	every coin	his cousins and friends				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent coin=Theme to cousin=Recipient

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