Test 8 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Count Piro: the fox wins a rich bri…
Did the fox really get a castle, or just a kip in the stable?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get · To what, where: castle
This is test 8 · ★ 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 get | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kip | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 kip | cc |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 kip | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kip | det |
| 12 | kip | kip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 castle | appos |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 stable | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stable | det |
| 15 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kip | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | a castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
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 got a castle, yeah, a proper one
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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 castle | det |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 6 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 10 one | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | He | a castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
Option 2
He lived in the castle for years, lush, playing with the kids and eating loads of food
The tree, 17 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 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lush | punct |
| 9 | lush | lush | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 years | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 playing | punct |
| 11 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lived | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 kids | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kids | det |
| 14 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 playing | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eating | cc |
| 16 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 playing | conj |
| 17 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eating | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 food | case |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loads | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | He | the castle | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | |||
| 2 | play | gerund | He not said here | with the kids | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with kid=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | He not said here | loads of food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient |
Option 3
He lived in the big house, mate
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 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | He | the big house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He lived in the castle for years, lush
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 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lush | punct |
| 9 | lush | lush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | He | lush | the castle | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
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