Test 8 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

What did Bow bells say to him, bro?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bow bells · What happens: say · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bells	aux
3	Bow	Bow	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bells	compound
4	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Bow bells		him = he			bro vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to he=Recipient

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

Turn again, Whittington, you shall be Lord Mayor of the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Whittington	punct
4	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Mayor	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 Mayor	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 Mayor	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 Mayor	cop
9	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mayor	compound
10	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Mayor	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	Whittington			again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	shall	you	Lord Mayor				of the city	tree rules

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

Turn again, Whittington

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Whittington	punct
4	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	Whittington			again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Come back, Whittington, dear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Come	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Whittington	punct
4	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Come	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dear	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Come	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	imperative	you not said here					Whittington vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Turn again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, and be rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Whittington	punct
4	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Mayor	punct
6	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mayor	compound
7	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Whittington	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 London	case
9	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mayor	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rich	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rich	cc
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 rich	cop
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Turn	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here				again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is	infinitive						rich property	tree rules

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