Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

Why'd the old fella pay her so much, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old fella · What happens: pay · To what, where: her

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 pay	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pay	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fella	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fella	amod
5	fella	fella	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	nsubj
6	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pay	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	6 pay	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 then	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 pay	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	the old fella	her = she					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Asset

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

for such service

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 service	case
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 service	amod
3	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

for the eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 eggs	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eggs	det
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

for her good work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	4 work	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 work	nmod:poss
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 work	amod
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work		her = she						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

for nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 nothing	case
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root

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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