Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: Joh…

Did John give his cash to a beggar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: John · What happens: give, cash · To what, where: cash, beggar

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1006 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: John buries his father and sets out into the world» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cash	nmod:poss
5	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 beggar	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beggar	det
8	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	John	John's cash	a beggar				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cash=Theme to beggar=Recipient
2	cash		John						nom cash «possession transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, his silver shillings, the lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 shillings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shillings	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shillings	nmod:poss
4	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shillings	amod
5	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lot	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shillings	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yeah, he gave the lot to some beggar by the gate, bless him

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 beggar	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 beggar	det
9	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 gate	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bless	punct
14	bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bless	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	the lot	some beggar			by the gate	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lot=Theme to beggar=Recipient
2	bless	infinitive		him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he kept his money safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 money	nmod:poss
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	his money				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, his gold coins, all of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 coins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 coins	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 coins	nmod:poss
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 all	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 coins	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin		his = he						nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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