Test 6 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

Some folks reckon he never robbed nobody, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: folks, he · What happens: reckon, not rob, innit · To what, where: nobody

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 folks	det
2	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reckon	nsubj
3	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 robbed	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 robbed	advmod
6	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reckon	ccomp
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 robbed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reckon	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	present	some folks		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not rob	past	he	nobody	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Source
3	innit	infinitive	some folks not said here		tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

They reckon he never robbed the Ogre

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 reckon	nsubj
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 robbed	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 robbed	advmod
5	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckon	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ogre	det
7	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 robbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	They						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not rob	past	he	the Ogre					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Source

Option 2

He never robbed nobody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 robbed	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 robbed	advmod
3	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 robbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rob	past	He	nobody					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They say he's innocent

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 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 innocent	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 innocent	cop
5	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	They						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he					innocent property	tree rules

Option 4

They reckon he robbed no one at all

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 reckon	nsubj
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 robbed	nsubj
4	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckon	ccomp
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 robbed	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 robbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	They						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	rob	past	he	no one		all			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Source

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