Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the…

so the poor kid got his stuff nicked?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poor kid, stuff · What happens: get, nick · To what, where: stuff

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 899 «Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the Metal Pig, Bellissima is taken by police, and the boy starts drawing» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kid	amod
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stuff	nmod:poss
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
8	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 got	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the poor kid	kid's stuff					tree rules
2	nick	participle	kid's stuff not said here						vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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, the police grabbed the dog off him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 police	det
4	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grabbed	nsubj
5	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabbed	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	the police	the dog				off dog	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dog=Theme off he=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the cops grabbed Bellissima, not his stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cops	det
2	cops	cop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grabbed	nsubj
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stuff	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 stuff	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 stuff	nmod:poss
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	the cops	Bellissima				Bellissima's stuff obl	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bellissima=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the cops took his dog away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cops	det
4	cops	cop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dog	nmod:poss
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	past	the cops	his dog				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

Option 4

the cops took the dog, not his money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cops	det
2	cops	cop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 money	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 money	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 money	nmod:poss
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the cops		the dog				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination

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