Test 7 · ★ · pg18442, Dick Whittington, part 18: Dick works in London,…

Dick sent his moggy on the ship, can you believe it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dick, you · What happens: send, believe · To what, where: moggy, ship

This is test 7 · ★ 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 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 moggy	nmod:poss
4	moggy	moggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ship	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 believe	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 believe	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 believe	nsubj
11	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 believe	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Dick	Dick's moggy		the ship			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moggy=Theme
2	believe	can	you	moggy					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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, he kept it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was mad, but it was a laugh, sending the cat off on a big ship

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mad	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laugh	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 laugh	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laugh	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 laugh	det
11	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sending	punct
13	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 mad	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sending	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	13 sending	compound:prt
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 ship	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ship	det
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ship	amod
20	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			mad property	tree rules
2	is a	past	it	a laugh			tree rules
3	send off	gerund	he not said here	the cat	a big ship		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he was dead sensible, really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sensible	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sensible	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sensible	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sensible	amod
6	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sensible	punct
8	really	really	ADV	_	6 sensible	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was mad, but it was a laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mad	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laugh	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 laugh	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laugh	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 laugh	det
11	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mad property	tree rules
2	is a	past	it	a laugh					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/358-pg18442-part18/t7/