Test 6 · ★ · Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the…

Mate, what did Dick give the grumpy cook?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dick · What happens: give · To what, where: Mate

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 359 «Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the king's gold, and a boy waits on a burning ship» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 give	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cook	det
8	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cook	amod
9	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	Dick	Mate					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient cook=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 · ✓ the right answer

A present, even though she was grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 present	det
2	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grumpy	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 present	punct
4	even	even	ADV	_	8 grumpy	advmod
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 grumpy	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grumpy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grumpy	cop
8	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

A gift, though she was mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 mean	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mean	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	cop
7	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gift	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A kind word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 word	amod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A bun, even though she was rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bun	det
2	bun	bun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rude	punct
4	even	even	ADV	_	8 rude	advmod
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 rude	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rude	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rude	cop
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bun	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					rude property	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.

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