Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his frien…

Mate, did Drakestail actually get his money back or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: get back · To what, where: money

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1551 «Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his friends to get back what the King owes him» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
4	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 money	nmod:poss
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 get	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past · do-support	Drakestail	Drakestail's money				Mate vocative; actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus

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, he never found it, because the King had already spent it all on feasts

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spent	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 spent	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 spent	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spent	aux
12	already	already	ADV	_	13 spent	advmod
13	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 found	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spent	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 it	det
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 feasts	case
17	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	past	he	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	spend	past · perfect	the King	it				on feasts goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on feast=Goal

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he never found it, all spent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 all	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 found	obj
9	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 all	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	past	he	it					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme all=Attribute
2	spend	participle							vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he got it back at the end, after the King paid him properly in gold

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 paid	punct
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 paid	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 paid	nsubj
14	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 paid	obj
16	properly	properly	ADV	_	14 paid	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 gold	case
18	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past	he	it			at the end		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at end=Asset
2	pay	past	the King	him = he		gold		properly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

Option 4

Yeah, he got it back, sorted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sorted	punct
8	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past	he	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	sort	participle	he not said here						vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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