Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Moti the Fool, part 25: Moti rides a s…

Did the king reward Moti or just give him a high-five?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, give · To what, where: king reward, high five, Moti

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1300 «Indian Fairy Tales, Moti the Fool, part 25: Moti rides a stolen-looking horse, catches a tiger, and chooses a pony» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reward	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reward	compound
4	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reward	appos
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 give	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 give	advmod
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reward	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 five	det
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 five	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 high	punct
13	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 give	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the king reward					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Eventuality
2	give	infinitive		a high five	Moti				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient five=Theme

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

Nope, he gave him a robe and sent him home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 robe	det
7	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sent	cc
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	a robe	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient robe=Theme
2	send	past	he not said here	him = he				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He raised his pay a hundredfold, so Moti was buzzing

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	2 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hundredfold	nmod:poss
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hundredfold	compound
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundredfold	det
6	hundredfold	hundredfold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raised	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 buzzing	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 buzzing	advmod
9	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 buzzing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 buzzing	aux
11	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 raised	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	raise	past	He	his pay hundredfold	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundredfold=Theme
2	pay	infinitive			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	buzz	past · progressive	Moti		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He doubled his pay and said well done

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	2 doubled	nsubj
2	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pay	nmod:poss
4	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doubled	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubled	conj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	advmod
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	double	past	He	his pay		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pay=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	He not said here		well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	participle	He not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pay		his = he			nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He gave him a little bit of extra cash

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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bit	amod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cash	case
8	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cash	amod
9	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	a little bit of extra cash	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bit=Theme

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