Test 8 · ★ · pg18442, Dick Whittington, part 18: Dick works in London,…

Why'd Dick turn back home, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dick · What happens: turn back

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 turn	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 turn	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	would	Dick				then	home property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: 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

Cos the bells rang out in his head and said he'd be Lord Mayor one day

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 rang	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bells	det
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rang	nsubj
4	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 rang	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rang	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Lord	nsubj
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 Lord	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 Lord	cop
14	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
15	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Lord	flat
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 day	nummod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Lord	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	ring out	past	the bells		his head		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Location
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	would	he	Lord		day	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos the bells said he'd be Lord Mayor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 said	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bells	det
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Lord	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 Lord	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 Lord	cop
8	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Lord	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the bells						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	he	Lord					tree rules

Option 3

Cos the bells said he'd be rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 said	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bells	det
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rich	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 rich	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 rich	cop
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the bells						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	he					rich property	tree rules

Option 4

Cos he got lonely and knew the bells said he'd be Lord Mayor of London, mate

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 got	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 knew	cc
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bells	det
8	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Mayor	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 Mayor	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 Mayor	cop
13	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Mayor	compound
14	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 London	case
16	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Mayor	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mate	punct
18	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Mayor	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	he		lonely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	know	past	he not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	the bells			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	would	he	Lord Mayor	of London; mate vocative	tree rules

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