Test 7 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and…

Ta for the bread and milk, but what did the kids get paid?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pay · To what, where: Ta

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 653 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and Tina trick the dragon back into chains, and he becomes the first cat» 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	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 bread	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ta	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 milk	cc
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bread	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 paid	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 paid	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 paid	nsubj:pass
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 paid	aux
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kids	det
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 paid	nsubj:pass
13	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 paid	aux:pass
14	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ta	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ta	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive · do-support		Ta for the bread and milk					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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

Loads of gold, shared out round the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shared	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 gold	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shared	punct
5	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 shared	compound:prt
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share out	participle · passive		Loads of gold				round the town	tree rules

Option 2

Loads of gold, given to the mayor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 given	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 gold	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mayor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mayor	det
8	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle · passive		Loads of gold	the mayor				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to mayor=Recipient

Option 3

Loads of gold, shared out round the town and given to the poor folk at the church

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shared	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 gold	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shared	punct
5	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 shared	compound:prt
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shared	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 given	cc
11	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 shared	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 folk	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 folk	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 folk	amod
15	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 given	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 church	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 church	det
18	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 folk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share out	participle · passive		Loads of gold				round the town	tree rules
2	give	participle			the poor folk at the church				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to folk=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A thousand quid, split three ways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 quid	det
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 quid	nummod
3	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 split	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 quid	punct
5	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ways	nummod
7	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 split	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	infinitive	a thousand quid	three ways					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient

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