Test 3 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Count Piro: the fox wins a rich bri…

Did the fox just tell the shepherds to lie, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell, lie, innit · To what, where: shepherds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shepherds	det
7	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 lie	mark
9	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lie	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the shepherds	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent shepherd=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lie not said to happen	to-infinitive		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	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

Nah, just run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said say it's Count Piro's, safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Piro	compound
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Piro	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Piro	cop
8	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Piro	compound
9	Piro	Piro	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Piro	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 safe	punct
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Piro	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it	's say Count Piro	tree rules
4	be				tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he told them to lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lie	mark
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lie not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, he told them to say it's the Count's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 Count	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Count	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Count	det
11	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Count	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he	them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it		's the Count	tree rules

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