Test 11 · ★ · Sicilian Tales, Maria and the King, part 1: a clever girl…
Ngl, did Maria get her dad out of trouble in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: get · To what, where: dad, trouble
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 723 «Sicilian Tales, Maria and the King, part 1: a clever girl outwits the king and saves her father» 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dad | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 trouble | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trouble | case |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trouble | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | Ngl | Maria's dad | trouble in the end | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dad=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
Yeah, she got him out, proper smart, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mate | amod |
| 9 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mate | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smart | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past | she | him = he | proper smart mate vocative | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, he got hanged, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hanged | hanged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 7 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | hanged property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Nah, he lost everything, but she was fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 lost | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fine | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 fine | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fine | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fine | cop |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lost | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | he | everything | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | fine property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she saved him, dead clever, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 saved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saved | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saved | nsubj |
| 4 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saved | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clever | punct |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 clever | amod |
| 8 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saved | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cap | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 cap | det |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saved | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | she | him = he | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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