Test 6 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

Yo, what did the servants send out on the ship?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servants · What happens: do, send out · To what, where: ship

This is test 6 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servants	det
6	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 send	nsubj
7	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 send	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ship	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 send	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	send out	present	the servants			the ship			vn confine-92-1 «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

Things to sell at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sell	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 sell	mark
3	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 sea	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive	Things			sea			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at sea=Asset

Option 2

Their own cargo of cloth and trinkets for the far-off trading ports

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cargo	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cargo	amod
3	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cloth	case
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cargo	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 trinkets	cc
7	trinkets	trinket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cargo	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	14 ports	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ports	det
10	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ports	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 off	punct
12	off	off	ADP	_	10 far	compound:prt
13	trading	trading	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ports	compound
14	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trinkets	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Goods to trade abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 trade	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 trade	mark
3	trade	trade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	3 trade	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	to-infinitive	Goods					abroad property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stuff to try their luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 try	mark
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stuff	acl
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 luck	nmod:poss
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 try	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	to-infinitive		their luck					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality

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