Test 4 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Count Piro: the fox wins a rich bri…
Why did Count Piro just stand there with no words, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: count, stand · To what, where: Piro
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 Count | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Count | aux |
| 3 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stand | advcl |
| 4 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Count | obj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 stand | advmod |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stand | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stand | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mate | punct |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 words | appos |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past · do-support | you not said here | Piro | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piro=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | imperative | you not said here | there | with no words | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
He was thinking hard about the wedding
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 | 3 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 thinking | advmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 wedding | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wedding | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thinking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | He | about the wedding; hard property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about wedding=Topic |
Option 2
He was stunned because his bird was dumb and he had loads of castle things to sort out today
The tree, 19 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 | 3 stunned | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stunned | aux:pass |
| 3 | stunned | stun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 dumb | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bird | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dumb | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dumb | cop |
| 8 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stunned | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stunned | conj |
| 12 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 things | case |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 things | compound |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 loads | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sort | mark |
| 17 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 sort | compound:prt |
| 19 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sort | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stun | past · passive | He | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | his bird | dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | bird | loads of castle things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sort out | to-infinitive | bird not said here | today | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
His bird was dumb and he had loads to sort out, so he just stood there looking at the fox
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bird | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dumb | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dumb | cop |
| 4 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dumb | conj |
| 8 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sort | mark |
| 10 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 sort | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 stood | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 stood | advmod |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dumb | conj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stood | advmod |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 stood | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 fox | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fox | det |
| 21 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | His bird | dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | bird | loads | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sort out | to-infinitive | loads not said here | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | bird | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | bird not said here | at the fox | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fox=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
His bird was dumb, he had loads to sort
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bird | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dumb | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dumb | cop |
| 4 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dumb | parataxis |
| 8 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sort | mark |
| 10 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | His bird | dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | bird | loads | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sort | to-infinitive | loads not said here | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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