Test 2 · ★ · pg18442, Dick Whittington, part 18: Dick works in London,…

Dick reckoned London was paved with gold, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dick · What happens: reckon, pave · To what, where: London

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 paved	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paved	aux:pass
5	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reckoned	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paved	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reckoned	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckoned	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckoned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	Dick						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pave	past · passive		London				with gold	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=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

Nah, cobbles and dirt, not gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 cobbles	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cobbles	punct
3	cobbles	cobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dirt	cc
5	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cobbles	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gold	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 gold	advmod
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cobbles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cobble	present							tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, daft lad, dirt was all he got

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lad	punct
3	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lad	amod
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lad	punct
6	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lad	conj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 got	cop
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					all, get property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, daft lad, mud was all he found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lad	punct
3	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lad	amod
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lad	punct
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lad	conj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	cop
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 found	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lad	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	daft lad and mud not said here				all, find property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, daft lad, dirt was all he got, and then he cried himself to sleep

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lad	punct
3	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lad	amod
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dirt	punct
6	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lad	conj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 got	cop
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cried	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 cried	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 got	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 cried	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sleep	mark
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cried	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			daft lad and dirt obl; all, get property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	he	himself = he	then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	sleep	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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