Test 5 · ★ · pg18442, Dick Whittington, part 18: Dick works in London,…

Alice was a bit of a good egg, weren't she?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: bit, she

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bit	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 egg	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 egg	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 egg	amod
8	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 she	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 she	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Alice	a bit				of a good egg	tree rules
2	not is a	past	Alice not said here	she					tree rules

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, she stuck up for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stuck	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick up	past	she					for him = he	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, she was a right moaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 moaner	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moaner	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 moaner	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moaner	det
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moaner	amod
7	moaner	moaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a right moaner					tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, she was kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she was a bit of a snob, but she did give him some money later

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bit	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 snob	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snob	det
9	snob	snob	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bit	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 money	det
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a bit				of a snob	tree rules
2	give	past · do-support	she	some money	him = he			late property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme

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