Test 5 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat: Whittington gets his treas…

did Miss Alice like him before he got rich

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: do, get · To what, where: Miss Alice

This is test 5 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Alice	compound
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 did	obl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 got	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Miss Alice				like Alice	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alice=Eventuality
2	get	past	Alice					rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

yeah, she always did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she					always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, she hated him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	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 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	she	him = he					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

nah, she only liked his money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 liked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 liked	advmod
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 money	nmod:poss
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	she	his money					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, she pitied him, then she fell for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 pitied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pitied	nsubj
4	pitied	pity	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 pitied	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 fell	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pitied	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pity	past	she	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	fall	past	she				then	for him = he	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=Theme

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