Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

Who nicked the miser's gold, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: nick, innit · To what, where: gold

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 nicked	nsubj
2	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miser	det
4	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gold	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 miser	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nicked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 nicked	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past		the miser's gold					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

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

A mate who'd been nosey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mate	det
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 nosey	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nosey	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 nosey	cop
6	nosey	nosey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	a mate and nosey	nosey					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A thief who'd been watchin' him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 watchin	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 watchin	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 watchin	cop
6	watchin	watchin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thief	acl:relcl
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 watchin	punct
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watchin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	a thief					watchin property	tree rules

Option 3

A bloke who'd been knockin' about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bloke	det
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knockin	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 knockin	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knockin	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 knockin	aux
6	knockin	knockin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 knockin	punct
8	about	about	ADV	_	6 knockin	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knockin	past · perfect · progressive	a bloke					about property	tree rules

Option 4

A thief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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