Test 7 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…

Bells went ding dong, what were they on about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bells, ding dong · What happens: go, be · To what, where: ding dong, they

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dong	compound
4	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 they	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 they	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 they	cop
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dong	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 about	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	2 went	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Bells	ding dong					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dong=Theme
2	is a	past	ding dong	they					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Turn again, Whittington

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Whittington	punct
4	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	Whittington			again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London, turn again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turn	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Mayor	punct
3	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Mayor	amod
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mayor	compound
5	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Whittington	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 London	case
7	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mayor	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Whittington	punct
9	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here				again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Dick, go back to the kitchen and work for the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dick	dick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dick	punct
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 work	cc
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kitchen	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 cook	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cook	det
12	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	infinitive	Dick					to the kitchen and work result; for the cook	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kitchen=Result

Option 4

Ring for the cook, boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 cook	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ring	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ring	conj

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

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