Test 3 · Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet
A cartoon shows a woodcutter who claims the gold axe and gets all three. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, woodcutter · What happens: show, claim, get, be · To what, where: woodcutter, gold axe, three
This is test 3 of lesson 95 «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» of the religion ethics 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
Sentence 1: A cartoon shows a woodcutter who claims the gold axe and gets all three.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woodcutter | det |
| 5 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 claims | nsubj |
| 7 | claims | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 woodcutter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 axe | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 axe | compound |
| 10 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 claims | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gets | cc |
| 12 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 claims | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 three | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 gets | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a woodcutter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woodcutter=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | present | a woodcutter | the gold axe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent axe=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get | present | a woodcutter not said here | all three | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer three=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.
Sentence 2: What is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
There were four axes in the fable
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 axes | nummod |
| 4 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fable | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fable | det |
| 7 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | four axes | the fable; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fable=Location |
Option 2
Nothing; that is how Aesop told it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 told | ccomp |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | cop |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 told | advmod |
| 6 | Aesop | Aesop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Aesop | tell property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
In the fable the honest woodcutter got all three; the greedy liar lost his own
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fable | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fable | det |
| 3 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woodcutter | det |
| 5 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woodcutter | amod |
| 6 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 three | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 liar | det |
| 12 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 liar | amod |
| 13 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 own | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the honest woodcutter | all three | the fable | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer three=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lose | past | the greedy liar | liar's own | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Eventuality |
Option 4
The woodcutter dropped a silver axe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woodcutter | det |
| 2 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 axe | det |
| 5 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 axe | amod |
| 6 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | the woodcutter | a silver axe | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
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