Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi…

Oi, was Whittington's cat actually sold for mad money, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: be, sell, innit · To what, where: cat

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1969 «English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins» 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	Oi	Oi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cat	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cat	cop
4	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cat	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Whittington	case
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 sold	advmod
8	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cat	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 money	case
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 money	amod
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sold	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cat	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Oi	Whittington's cat		tree rules
2	sell	participle		Whittington's cat not said here	for mad money; actually property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for money=Asset
3	innit	infinitive	Oi not said here			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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the king paid ten times the whole cargo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	obl:unmarked
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cargo	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cargo	amod
10	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the king	the whole cargo			time		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cargo=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the king paid ten times the whole cargo, innit, for a cat he wanted

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cargo	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cargo	amod
10	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 times	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 paid	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cat	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 cat	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	parataxis
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cat	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the king				time		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	want	past	king	a cat not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cat=Theme

Option 3

Nah, the captain sold the cat for a few coins and went home to London to have a drink

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 captain	det
4	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sold	nsubj
5	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sold	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 coins	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 coins	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coins	amod
11	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sold	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sold	conj
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 London	case
16	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 drink	det
20	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sell	past	the captain	the cat		for a few coins	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cat=Theme for coin=Asset
2	go	past	the captain not said here		London	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to london=Initial_Location
3	have	to-infinitive	the captain not said here	a drink			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, the king paid ten times the whole cargo, innit, for a cat

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cargo	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cargo	amod
10	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 times	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 paid	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cat	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 cat	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	parataxis

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

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