Test 6 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the ma…

Did Peter use the root on the cupboard to nick the money, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: use, nick · To what, where: root, cupboard, money

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 687 «Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the magic root, steals the gold, and Lucia gets a suitor» 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	3 use	aux
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 root	det
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 cupboard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cupboard	det
8	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 nick	mark
10	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 money	det
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nick	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	10 nick	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	Peter	the root		the cupboard			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient
2	nick	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	the money					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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, he nicked the gold

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obj

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

Option 2

nah, no way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, he nicked the cash

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cash	det
6	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obj

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

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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