Test 4 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is…

bare people were paying a halfpenny a week for the crown, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bare people · What happens: pay · To what, where: halfpenny

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 633 «The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is fetched from the nursery and made King» 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	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paying	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 paying	aux
4	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 halfpenny	det
6	halfpenny	halfpenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paying	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paying	obl:unmarked
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 crown	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crown	det
11	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paying	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crown	appos
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 paying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · progressive	bare people	a halfpenny			week	for the crown	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent halfpenny=Asset for crown=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the rich ones paid a halfpenny each week and the poor ones paid nothing at all to the Chancellor

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 paid	nsubj
6	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 halfpenny	det
8	halfpenny	halfpenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	obj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 paid	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ones	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ones	amod
14	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 paid	nsubj
15	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 paid	conj
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 paid	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 nothing	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Chancellor	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Chancellor	det
21	Chancellor	Chancellor	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the rich ones	a halfpenny			week		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halfpenny=Asset
2	pay	past	the poor ones	nothing		all		to the Chancellor	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, from the ones with less pocket money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ones	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 ones	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 money	case
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 money	amod
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	compound
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ones	nmod

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

Option 3

Yeah, from the ones with more money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ones	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 ones	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 money	case
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 money	amod
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ones	nmod

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

Option 4

Yeah, from the ones with less pocket money, every single week until the crown was paid off

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ones	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 ones	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 paid	nsubj:pass
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 money	case
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 money	amod
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	compound
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ones	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 week	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 week	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 week	amod
13	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	nmod
14	until	until	ADP	_	16 crown	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crown	det
16	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 week	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 paid	aux:pass
18	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 paid	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay off	past · passive		the ones with less pocket money every single week until the crown					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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