Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…

honestly, how did the miser pay up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: miser · What happens: pay up

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» 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	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 pay	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 honestly	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 pay	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 miser	det
6	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	nsubj
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 pay	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay up	past · do-support	the miser					honestly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

gave up his land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 gave	compound:prt
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 land	nmod:poss
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past			his land				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

counted the coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coins	det
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 counted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past		the coins					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 3

paid cash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cash	amod
2	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

paid in silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 silver	case
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 paid	obl

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

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