Test 2 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor her…

ok but why did the dude lose his shirt tho

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: lose · To what, where: shirt

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1695 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor herd-boy helps a wounded giant, gets a magic loaf and an invisible belt, and wins his master's daughter» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 lose	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 lose	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 lose	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lose	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dude	det
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	nsubj
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shirt	nmod:poss
9	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obj
10	tho	tho	PUNCT	_	7 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · do-support	the dude	dude's shirt					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Eventuality

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

cuz the dude was so poor he sold his shirt to buy bread at the village market

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dude	det
3	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poor	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 poor	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 poor	advmod
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	ccomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sold	nsubj
8	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 poor	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shirt	nmod:poss
10	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sold	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 buy	mark
12	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sold	advcl
13	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buy	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 market	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 market	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 market	compound
17	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	is	past	the dude			poor property	tree rules
3	sell	past	he	his shirt			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme
4	buy	to-infinitive	he not said here	bread	the village market		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bread=Theme at market=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cuz the giant wanted a new shirt so he took it and then ran off laughing

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cuz	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shirt	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shirt	amod
7	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 took	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cuz	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 ran	advmod
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cuz	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 ran	compound:prt
16	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	want	past	the giant	a new shirt		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shirt=Theme
3	take	past	giant	shirt		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	run off	past	you not said here		then	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	laugh	gerund	you not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

cuz the giant snagged it on a rock lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snagged	nsubj
4	snagged	snag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cuz	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snagged	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 rock	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snagged	obl
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 cuz	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	snag	past	the giant	it		a rock			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cuz he used it to bandage the giant's foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 used	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bandage	mark
6	bandage	bandage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foot	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 giant	case
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bandage	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	cuz	it					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	bandage	to-infinitive	cuz not said here	the giant's foot					vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Destination

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