Test 5 · ★ · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:…

Wha' did the dream bloke reckon about the half of the money?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dream bloke · What happens: reckon

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a 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	Wha	Wha	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bloke	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Wha	case
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bloke	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bloke	det
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bloke	compound
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 half	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 half	det
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 reckon	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 money	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 money	det
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 half	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Wha's dream bloke					about the half of the money	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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

It was theft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 theft	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 theft	cop
3	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

It was a warning sign

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sign	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sign	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sign	det
4	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sign	compound
5	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a warning sign					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was ill-gotten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gotten	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gotten	aux:pass
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gotten	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ill	punct
5	gotten	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · passive		It					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 4

Money's bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Money	case
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Money	amod

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

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