Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…

Did Tom leave those robbers totally skint?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: leave · To what, where: robbers

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 242 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the football crowd, four robbers and a tinker, then kills a giant» 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	3 leave	aux
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 leave	nsubj
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 robbers	det
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	obj
6	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 skint	advmod
7	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leave	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · do-support	Tom	that robbers				skint property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme

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, he nicked all their dosh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 dosh	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dosh	nmod:poss
7	dosh	dosh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	he	their dosh					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dosh=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, he took every penny they had and their horses too

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 penny	det
6	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 penny	acl:relcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 horses	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horses	nmod:poss
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	conj
12	too	too	ADV	_	4 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	every penny					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Theme
2	have	past	they	every penny not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he robbed them of coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 robbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 robbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 robbed	nsubj
4	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 robbed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 coins	case
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 robbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	past	he	them = they				of coins	vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme of coin=Source

Option 4

Yeah, he nicked all their dosh and left them crying in the ditch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 dosh	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dosh	nmod:poss
7	dosh	dosh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 left	cc
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nicked	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	obj
11	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 left	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 ditch	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ditch	det
14	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	nick	past	he	their dosh		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dosh=Patient
2	leave	past	he not said here	them = they		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	cry speech: express	gerund	he not said here		the ditch	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ditch=Location

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