Test 12 · ★ · Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a gra…

no lie, what was the miser ordered to give up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lie · What happens: be, order, give up · To what, where: miser

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 349 «Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a grape-vine, the bell of justice rings, and the judges make the greedy miser share his gold» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 lie	det
2	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ordered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 miser	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 miser	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 miser	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 miser	det
7	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lie	conj
8	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 give	mark
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ordered	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 give	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 ordered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	no lie and the miser	the miser	tree rules
2	order	past	no lie and the miser		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give up not said to happen	to-infinitive	no lie and the miser not said here		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: 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

half of all the gold he had hoarded in his chests for many years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 hoarded	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 gold	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 gold	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gold	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 half	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hoarded	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hoarded	aux
8	hoarded	hoard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 chests	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 chests	nmod:poss
11	chests	chest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hoarded	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 years	amod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hoarded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hoard	past · perfect	half of all gold			half's chests	year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in chest=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

half of all his gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 gold	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 gold	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gold	nmod:poss
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 half	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

his house and land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 house	nmod:poss
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 land	cc
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 house	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

his horse and his bags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bags	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bags	nmod:poss
5	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 horse	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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