Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become ste…

Did the giant's tools get nicked by a bird?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird · What happens: nick · To what, where: tools

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2019 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become steps, a finger is lost, and the giant drowns» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nicked	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tools	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 giant	case
5	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nicked	nsubj:pass
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 nicked	aux:pass
7	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 bird	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nicked	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · passive · do-support	a bird	the giant's tools					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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

Yeah, a hoodie said they'd steal 'em

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hoodie	det
4	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 steal	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 steal	aux
8	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a hoodie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	steal	would	they	'em = they					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, the hoodie nicked the knife and the axe and the giant said nothing at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nicked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hoodie	det
4	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	nsubj
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knife	det
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 axe	det
10	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 giant	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 axe	conj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nicked	conj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 said	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	the hoodie	the knife					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument knife=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the axe and the giant	nothing		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 3

Yeah, a hoodie in a tree said they'd steal 'em, and the giant then went home to fetch the rest of his kit

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hoodie	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hoodie	det
4	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hoodie	nmod
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 steal	nsubj
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 steal	aux
11	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 steal	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 giant	det
16	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 went	nsubj
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 went	advmod
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fetch	mark
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 went	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rest	det
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fetch	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 kit	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 kit	nmod:poss
26	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a hoodie in a tree				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	steal	would	they	'em = they			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
3	go	past	the giant		then	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	the rest of his kit			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, a crow nicked the big axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nicked	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crow	det
4	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	nsubj
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 axe	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 axe	amod
8	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	a crow	the big axe					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient

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