Test 8 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon, part 22: a dragon s…

Was the Prince proper generous when the farmers moaned about their crops?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince, farmers · What happens: be, moan

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 654 «The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon, part 22: a dragon scares the town and the Prince sets out to hunt it» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 generous	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 generous	nsubj
4	proper	prop	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 generous	advmod
5	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 moaned	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farmers	det
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 moaned	nsubj
9	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 generous	advcl
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 crops	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 crops	nmod:poss
12	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 moaned	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 generous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince					generous, prop property	tree rules
2	moan	past	the farmers					about farmers's crops	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about crop=Topic

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

Yeah, he gave them a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	a bit	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, he never paid them a penny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 paid	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 paid	advmod
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 paid	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 penny	det
8	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pay	past	he	them = they					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient penny=Asset

Option 3

Nope, he never paid them a penny and called them lazy for complaining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 paid	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 paid	advmod
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 paid	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 penny	det
8	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 called	cc
10	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	obj
12	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 called	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 complaining	case
14	complaining	complaining	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lazy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pay	past	he	them = they					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient penny=Asset
2	call	past	he not said here	them = they				lazy property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, he paid them a few coins but only after they begged him in the square

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coins	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coins	amod
8	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	13 begged	advmod
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 begged	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begged	nsubj
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begged	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 square	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 square	det
17	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he	them = they					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient coin=Asset
2	beg speech: request	past	coins = coin		him = he	the square			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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