Test 13 · ★ · Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla…

Yo, did Tiidu keep his pipes or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tiidu · What happens: keep · To what, where: pipes

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 678 «Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla and becomes a scullion» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
4	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pipes	nmod:poss
7	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 pipes	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Tiidu	Tiidu's pipes					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=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

He sold them, sounds right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sounds	punct
5	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sold	advcl
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sounds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	He	them = they					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	sound	present	He not said here					right property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah he still has them, sounds like he just kept them in a box somewhere

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 has	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 has	advmod
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sounds	punct
7	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 kept	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sounds	ccomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 box	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 box	det
15	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	obl
16	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 box	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	he	them = they		still	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	sound	present	he not said here				tree rules
3	keep	past	he	them = they	a box		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in box=Location

Option 3

He traded them for some cash, sounds like it, it's a whole sad story

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 traded	nsubj
2	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 traded	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 cash	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 cash	det
6	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 traded	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sounds	punct
8	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cash	acl:relcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sounds	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 story	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 story	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 story	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 story	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 story	amod
16	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 story	amod
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 traded	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trade	past	He	them = they	for some cash	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme for cash=Co-Theme
2	sound	present	some cash not said here		like cash	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	present	cash	a whole sad story		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He traded them, sounds like it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 traded	nsubj
2	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 traded	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sounds	punct
5	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 traded	ccomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sounds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	past	He	them = they					tree rules
2	sound	present	He not said here					like it	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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