Test 7 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…

Honest, did the rogues think they had the goat's gold sorted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rogues, gold · What happens: think, have, sort · To what, where: gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1906 «Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule that three rogues swear is a donkey» 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	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 think	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honest	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rogues	det
5	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goat	det
10	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gold	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 goat	case
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
13	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 had	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the rogues		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	rogues = rogue	the goat's gold	tree rules
3	sort	participle	the goat's gold not said here		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they reckoned they'd got it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckoned	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 reckoned	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	they						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	past · perfect	they	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

Nah, they knew they'd been done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 done	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knew	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	they						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	past · perfect · passive		they					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they thought they'd bagged it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bagged	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bagged	aux
7	bagged	bag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bagged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bag	past · perfect	they	it					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Nah, they were proper gutted, because they had lost their gold and their mule and the goat wandered off as well

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 lost	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lost	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 gutted	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 gold	nmod:poss
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mule	cc
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mule	nmod:poss
16	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gold	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wandered	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 goat	det
19	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wandered	nsubj
20	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 wandered	compound:prt
22	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	20 wandered	advmod
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		they	properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	lose	past · perfect	they	their gold and gold's mule		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Eventuality
3	wander off	past	the goat			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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