Test 13 · ★ · pg18442, Dick Whittington, part 18: Dick works in London,…

What did Dick reckon the cat would sell for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dick, cat · What happens: reckon, sell

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 358 «pg18442, Dick Whittington, part 18: Dick works in London, buys a cat, sends it to sea, and turns back home» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
3	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sell	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sell	aux
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckon	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	8 sell	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	Dick						tree rules
2	sell	would	the cat						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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

Enough to buy a fine house and a new coat for winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enough	enough	ADV	_	3 buy	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 buy	mark
3	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 house	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 house	amod
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buy	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 coat	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 coat	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coat	amod
10	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 house	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 winter	case
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	to-infinitive		a fine house and a new coat			winter	enough property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Enough to buy a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enough	enough	ADV	_	3 buy	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 buy	mark
3	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	to-infinitive		a stick				enough property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme

Option 3

Enough to buy a dozen loaves of bread and a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enough	enough	ADV	_	3 buy	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 buy	mark
3	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dozen	det
5	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 loaves	nummod
6	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buy	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bread	case
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loaves	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stick	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stick	det
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loaves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	to-infinitive		dozen loaves of bread and a stick				enough property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme

Option 4

Enough for a meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enough	enough	ADV	_	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 meal	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 meal	det
4	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Enough	obl

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

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