Test 4 · ★ · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…

Innit mad that Ciccu paid for three dishes with his purse, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: pay

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mad	compound
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 paid	mark
4	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mad	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 dishes	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 dishes	nummod
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 purse	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 purse	nmod:poss
11	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dishes	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mad	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 mad	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Ciccu					for three dishes with Ciccu's purse	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for dish=Theme

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, it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he paid with coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 coins	case
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he					with coins	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah, it did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	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	it						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it gave him six florins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 florins	nummod
7	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	it	six florins	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient florin=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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