Test 9 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the o…

Wicked, what was the purse's catch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Wicked catch

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 catch	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 catch	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 catch	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 purse	det
6	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 catch	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 purse	case
8	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the purse's Wicked catch					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

no washing or combing for three years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 washing	det
2	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 combing	cc
4	combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 washing	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 combing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comb	gerund					year		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

never to wash or comb his hair or wear clean clothes at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 wash	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 wash	mark
3	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 comb	cc
5	comb	comb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 wash	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comb	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 wear	cc
9	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 wash	conj
10	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clothes	amod
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 wear	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 wear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not wash	to-infinitive			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	comb	infinitive	his hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	wear	infinitive	clean clothes	all	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source

Option 3

no washing or shaving for a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 washing	det
2	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 shaving	cc
4	shaving	shave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 washing	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	gerund					while		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

no washing, combing, or cutting of hair for three years and more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 washing	det
2	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 combing	punct
4	combing	combing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 washing	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cutting	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 cutting	cc
7	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 washing	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 hair	case
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cutting	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cutting	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 more	cc
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 years	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund					year	of hair	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of hair=Location

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