Test 8 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…

Why did Simon get the two goats in the first place?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Simon · What happens: get · To what, where: two goats, first place

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goats	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 goats	nummod
7	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Simon	the two goats		the first place			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goat=Stimulus

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

Cos they were all white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 white	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 white	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 white	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 white	advmod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Cos he wanted to ride one of them home and the other to carry the shopping back from the village

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 ride	mark
5	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ride	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 one	nmod
9	home	home	ADV	_	5 ride	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 other	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wanted	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carry	mark
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 other	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shopping	det
16	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	14 carry	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 village	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 village	det
20	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cos				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ride not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cos not said here	one of them		home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	carry back	to-infinitive	Cos not said here	the shopping	the village		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent shopping=Theme from village=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cos they were dead identical

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 identical	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 identical	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 identical	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 identical	amod
5	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the peasant offered him a bargain and he thought the goats would fetch good money at the market in town

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 offered	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peasant	det
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offered	nsubj
4	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 offered	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bargain	det
7	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offered	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offered	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goats	det
12	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fetch	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fetch	aux
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	ccomp
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 money	amod
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 market	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 market	det
19	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 town	case
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	offer	past	the peasant	a bargain	him = he			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal bargain=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	peasant					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	fetch	would	the goats	good money		the market	in town	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent money=Theme at market=Asset

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