Test 12 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…

Yo, what did the Spendthrift flog to get some cash?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Spendthrift · What happens: flog, get · To what, where: cash

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 371 «Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin hungry cat dresses up as a doctor» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 flog	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 flog	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flog	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Spendthrift	det
6	Spendthrift	spendthrift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flog	nsubj
7	flog	flog	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 flog	xcomp
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 cash	det
11	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 flog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flog	past · do-support	the Spendthrift						tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	the Spendthrift not said here	some cash					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cash=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 · ← Mova's choice

His clothes, right down to his tunic, and then his shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 clothes	nmod:poss
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tunic	punct
4	right	right	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	8 tunic	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 tunic	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tunic	nmod:poss
8	tunic	tunic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clothes	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shoes	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shoes	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 shoes	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shoes	nmod:poss
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clothes	conj

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

Option 2

His lands and his silver plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 lands	nmod:poss
2	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 plate	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 plate	nmod:poss
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plate	compound
6	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lands	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His clothes, right down to his tunic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 clothes	nmod:poss
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 down	punct
4	right	right	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 clothes	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 tunic	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tunic	nmod:poss
8	tunic	tunic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 down	obl

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

Option 4

His clothes, right down to his tunic and every last ring he owned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 clothes	nmod:poss
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tunic	punct
4	right	right	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	8 tunic	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 tunic	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tunic	nmod:poss
8	tunic	tunic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clothes	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ring	cc
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 ring	det
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ring	amod
12	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tunic	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 owned	nsubj
14	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ring	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	he	every last ring not said here					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ring=Theme

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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