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Test 2 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

Bruv, the cook was proper mean, yeah? What did she threaten him with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: be, threaten · To what, where: him

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1462 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to sea» 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

Sentence 1: Bruv, the cook was proper mean, yeah?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mean	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	cop
6	proper	properly	ADV	_	7 mean	advmod
7	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 mean	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bruv					mean, properly property	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.

Sentence 2: What did she threaten him with?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 threaten	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threaten	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threaten	nsubj
4	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threaten	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	4 threaten	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	Bruv	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer he=Result

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To throw him into the river with the rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 throw	mark
2	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 throw	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throw	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 rats	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rats	det
9	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	to-infinitive		him = he				into the river result; with the rats	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into river=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To scald him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scald	mark
2	scald	scald	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scald	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scald	to-infinitive		him = he					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

To starve him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 starve	mark
2	starve	starve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 starve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	to-infinitive		him = he					tree rules

Option 4

To have him sent to prison for the whole winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 have	mark
2	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	aux
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	obj
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 prison	case
6	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 winter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 winter	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 winter	amod
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	infinitive · perfect				prison	winter		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to prison=Destination

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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