Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, par…

Did the fox get the tailor to hand over the coat for free?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: get, hand over · To what, where: tailor, coat

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 701 «Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, part 1: the fox sells pears and coats to the king for a lazy boy» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fox	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hand	mark
8	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	advcl
9	over	over	ADP	_	8 hand	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 coat	det
11	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 free	case
13	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coat	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the fox	the tailor					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tailor=Stimulus
2	hand over	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	the coat				for free	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=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

He said he'd pay later, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pay	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	aux
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 pay	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay	would	he					late property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He said he'd pay tomorrow, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pay	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	aux
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay	would	he				tomorrow	bro vocative	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He said he'd pay tomorrow with the king's gold after the wedding, bro

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pay	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	aux
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obl:unmarked
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 gold	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gold	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 wedding	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wedding	det
14	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bro	punct
16	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wedding	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay	would	he				after the wedding and bro; tomorrow	with the king's gold	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He said he'd pay tomorrow, once the Count's money arrived, bro

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pay	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	aux
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 arrived	punct
8	once	once	SCONJ	_	13 arrived	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Count	det
10	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 money	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Count	case
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	nsubj
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bro	punct
15	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay	would	he	tomorrow		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	arrive	past	the Count's money		bro vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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