Test 4 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat: Whittington gets his treas…

no cap, the cook got presents even though she was the worst

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, cook · What happens: get, be · To what, where: presents

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1463 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat: Whittington gets his treasure, marries Alice and becomes Lord Mayor» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obj
8	even	even	ADV	_	13 worst	advmod
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 worst	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 worst	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 worst	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 worst	det
13	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	no cap	presents					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=Stimulus
2	is	past	cook					bad 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.

The options

Option 1

nah, she got nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yep, Whittington was too nice to be mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nice	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nice	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 nice	advmod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 mad	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 mad	cop
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Whittington					nice property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Whittington not said here					mad property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yep, he gave her a present anyway lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	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	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 present	det
7	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	a present	her = she			anyway property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient present=Theme

Option 4

nah, he gave her nothing at all, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	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	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 gave	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 nothing	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
10	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	nothing	her = she	all			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient nothing=Theme at all=Asset

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