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Test 7 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prin…

The king pays six shillings, is that mad cheap or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: pay, be · To what, where: six shillings

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» 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

detnsubjnummodobjpunctcopmarkamodconjccdiscoursepunctrootTheDETkingNOUNpaysVERBsixNUMshillingsNOUN,PUNCTisAUXthatSCONJmadADJcheapADJorCCONJnahINTJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 kingdet
2kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing3 paysnsubj
3payspayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4sixsixNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card5 shillingsnummod
5shillingsshillingNOUNNumber=Plur3 paysobj
6,,PUNCT_10 cheappunct
7isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 cheapcop
8thatthatSCONJ_10 cheapmark
9madmadADJDegree=Pos10 cheapamod
10cheapcheapADJDegree=Pos3 paysconj
11ororCCONJ_12 nahcc
12nahnahINTJ_10 cheapdiscourse
13??PUNCT_3 payspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1paypresentthe kingsix shillingsvn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shilling=Asset
2ispresentthe king not said herecheap propertytree rules

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

Honestly fair for a cat

advmodcasedetoblrootHonestlyADVfairADJforADPaDETcatNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HonestlyhonestlyADV_2 fairadvmod
2fairfairADJDegree=Posrootroot
3forforADP_5 catcase
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 catdet
5catcatNOUNNumber=Sing2 fairobl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pretty cheap for a cat

advmodcasedetoblrootPrettyADVcheapADJforADPaDETcatNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PrettyprettyADV_2 cheapadvmod
2cheapcheapADJDegree=Posrootroot
3forforADP_5 catcase
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 catdet
5catcatNOUNNumber=Sing2 cheapobl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Actually cheap, the king could have paid far more gold for the whole palace

The tree, 14 words
advmodamodpunctdetnsubj:passauxauxamodadvmodadvmodcasedetamodnmodrootActuallyADVcheapADJ,PUNCTtheDETkingNOUNcouldAUXhaveAUXpaidVERBfarADVmoreADVgoldNOUNforADPtheDETwholeADJpalaceNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ActuallyactuallyADV_2 cheapadvmod
2cheapcheapADJDegree=Pos11 goldamod
3,,PUNCT_2 cheappunct
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 kingdet
5kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing8 paidnsubj:pass
6couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin8 paidaux
7havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf8 paidaux
8paidpayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 goldamod
9farfarADVDegree=Pos10 moreadvmod
10moremoreADVDegree=Cmp8 paidadvmod
11goldgoldNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
12forforADP_15 palacecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 palacedet
14wholewholeADJDegree=Pos15 palaceamod
15palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing11 goldnmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1paycould · perfect · passivethe kingvn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 4

Nah, that's a fortune, the cat was worth way more

discoursepunctnsubjcopdetnsubjpunctdetnsubjcopamodadvmodrootNahINTJ,PUNCTthatPRON'sAUXaDETfortuneNOUN,PUNCTtheDETcatNOUNwasAUXworthADJwayNOUNmoreADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NahnahINTJ_6 fortunediscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Nahpunct
3thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem6 fortunensubj
4'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 fortunecop
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 fortunedet
6fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing12 waynsubj
7,,PUNCT_6 fortunepunct
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 catdet
9catcatNOUNNumber=Sing12 waynsubj
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 waycop
11worthworthADJDegree=Pos12 wayamod
12waywayNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
13moremoreADVDegree=Cmp12 wayadvmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentthata fortunetree rules
2is apasta fortuneworth waytree rules

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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