Test 12 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Count Piro: the fox wins a rich bri…
Last one, what's the best bit of the whole tale for you?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Last one · What happens: be · To what, where: best bit
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 702 «Italian Popular Tales, Count Piro: the fox wins a rich bride and tests his master's gratitude» 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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 one | amod |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bit | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 bit | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bit | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 bit | amod |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tale | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tale | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tale | amod |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bit | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tale | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Last one | the best bit | of the whole tale for you | 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 · ← Mova's choice
The fox fooling the king with his lies about the sheep and burning the ogre in the oven
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | fooling | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fox | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fooling | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 lies | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lies | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fooling | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 sheep | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sheep | det |
| 11 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lies | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 burning | cc |
| 13 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 fooling | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ogre | det |
| 15 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burning | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 oven | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 oven | det |
| 18 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | gerund | the fox not said here | the king | with king's lies about the sheep | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | the fox not said here | the ogre | the oven | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ogre=Theme | |||
| 3 | lie | king | about the sheep | nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl |
Option 2
The fox fooling the king and then burning the ogre and his wife in the big oven at night
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | fooling | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fox | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fooling | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 burning | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 burning | advmod |
| 8 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 fooling | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ogre | det |
| 10 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burning | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wife | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ogre | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 oven | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 oven | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 oven | amod |
| 17 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burning | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | gerund | the fox not said here | the king | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | the fox not said here | the ogre and king's wife | the big oven | then; night | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ogre=Theme |
Option 3
When the fox fools the king with pears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 fools | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fools | nsubj |
| 4 | fools | fool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fools | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 pears | case |
| 8 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fools | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | present | the fox | the king | with pears | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The fox fooling the king and burning the ogre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | fooling | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fox | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fooling | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 burning | cc |
| 7 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 fooling | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ogre | det |
| 9 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burning | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | gerund | the fox not said here | the king | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | the fox not said here | the ogre | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ogre=Theme |
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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