Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty…

Was the monk actually caught out by a bit of his own robe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bit · What happens: be, catch out · To what, where: monk

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2016 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 monk	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monk	det
3	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj:pass
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 caught	advmod
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 caught	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 bit	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 robe	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 robe	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 robe	amod
13	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the monk					tree rules
2	catch out	participle · passive	a bit of monk's own robe	the monk				actually property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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

Nah, Ivan just left it alone, lads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lads	punct
9	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Ivan	it				lads obl; alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he did, lads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lads	punct
6	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	lads					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, Ivan nicked a bit off it, lads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obl:unmarked
7	off	off	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lads	punct
10	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	Ivan	a bit				off bit; lads obl	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, Ivan snipped a round bit off his robe with a knife, and that proved it, lads

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 snipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 snipped	nsubj
4	snipped	snip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snipped	obl:unmarked
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 robe	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 robe	nmod:poss
10	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snipped	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 knife	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 knife	det
13	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 robe	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 proved	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 proved	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 proved	nsubj
17	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 snipped	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 proved	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lads	punct
20	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 proved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snip	past	Ivan	a round bit				off Ivan's robe with a knife	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	prove	past	that	knife				lads obl	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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