Test 10 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

Why did the married women not pay him much?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: married women · What happens: not pay · To what, where: him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 pay	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 women	det
4	married	married	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 women	amod
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pay	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 pay	advmod
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pay	obj
9	much	much	ADV	_	7 pay	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pay	past · do-support	the married women	him = he					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

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

They paid badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 paid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	They					badly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They paid him rubbish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	obj
4	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	They		him = he				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rubbish=Asset

Option 3

They paid little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 paid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	They					little property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They gave him few coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coins	amod
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	They	few coins	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coin=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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