Test 5 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…

Yo, what did the rogues actually pay for the goat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rogues · What happens: do, pay

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1906 «Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule that three rogues swear is a donkey» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rogues	det
6	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pay	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 pay	advmod
8	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 goat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 goat	det
11	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pay	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	pay	present	the rogues					for the goat; actually property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for goat=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 · ← Mova's choice

Fifty quid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 quid	nummod
2	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty quid, like, the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 quid	nummod
2	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 quid	punct
4	like	like	INTJ	_	2 quid	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gold	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gold	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quid	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Loads, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Loads	punct
3	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 Loads	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

About twenty quid, the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 twenty	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 quid	nummod
3	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gold	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quid	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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