Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house…
did the thief keep the coat or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thief · What happens: keep · To what, where: coat
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 397 «Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house is robbed while he reads other people's fortunes» 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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thief | det |
| 3 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coat | det |
| 6 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 nah | cc |
| 8 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · do-support | the thief | the coat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=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, he left it on the bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 left | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bed | det |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | he | it | the bed | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bed=Location |
Option 2
yeah, he took it and ran
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | he | it | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | he not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he nicked it and bounced
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 nicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nicked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nicked | nsubj |
| 4 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nicked | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bounced | cc |
| 7 | bounced | bounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nicked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | he | it | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bounce | participle | he not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
nah, he dropped it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 dropped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | he | it | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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