Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi…

Mate, did the Fitzwarren lot try to nick the cash?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: try, nick · To what, where: Fitzwarren lot, cash

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 try	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 try	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lot	det
5	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lot	compound
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 try	obl:unmarked
7	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 nick	mark
9	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cash	det
11	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nick	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · do-support		the Fitzwarren lot				Mate vocative	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	nick not said to happen	to-infinitive		the cash					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cash=Patient

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

Yeah, they tried, but Dick caught them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 caught	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 caught	cc
7	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 caught	nsubj
8	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	they						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	catch	past	Dick	them = they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, they kept it all quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 quietly	advmod
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	it				quietly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, Mr. Fitzwarren said he'd give it all back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
4	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	obj
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 back	advmod
11	back	back	ADV	_	8 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fitzwarren Mr.						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	would	Fitzwarren	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they took the lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	they	the lot					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

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