Test 7 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms t…

Did the Mayor pay the fifty quid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mayor · What happens: pay · To what, where: fifty quid

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 235 «More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms the rats, then leads the children away for good» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mayor	det
3	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nsubj
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 quid	det
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 quid	nummod
7	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · do-support	the Mayor	the fifty quid					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quid=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

Yeah, he paid up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 paid	compound:prt

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

Option 2

Nah, he offered twenty and then the chest was empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 offered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 offered	nsubj
4	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 offered	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 empty	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 empty	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chest	det
9	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 empty	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 empty	cop
11	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 offered	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	he	twenty					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent twenty=Theme
2	is	past	the chest				then	empty property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he offered ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 offered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 offered	nsubj
4	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 offered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	he	ten					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ten=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he offered twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 offered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 offered	nsubj
4	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 offered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	he	twenty					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent twenty=Theme

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