Test 4 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…

Did Alice actually stick up for him, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: stick up

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1968 «Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wins his place at court across the sea» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Alice	aux
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stick	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 stick	advmod
4	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stick	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stick	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nah	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stick	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick up	infinitive	Alice					for him = he; actually property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

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

Nah, she just gave him bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj

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

Option 2

Nah, she told the cook off, then went and told her dad about the whole thing

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	off	off	ADP	_	4 told	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 went	advmod
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dad	nmod:poss
14	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	iobj
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 thing	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past	she	the cook			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient
2	go	past			then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past		her dad		about the whole thing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient about thing=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she told the cook off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	off	off	ADP	_	4 told	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past	she		the cook				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, she made the cook give him a proper dinner and a new coat

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dinner	det
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dinner	amod
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 coat	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 coat	det
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coat	amod
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dinner	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	she	the cook					tree rules
2	give	infinitive	the cook not said here	a proper dinner and a new coat	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dinner=Theme

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