Test 10 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, Peter and the Golden-haired Maiden: Pete…

so the Sultan gave them a thousand gold pieces, dead generous

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: give · To what, where: thousand gold pieces, them

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 706 «Brown Fairy Book, Peter and the Golden-haired Maiden: Peter calls his dogs and wins back the girl» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	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 thousand	det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pieces	nummod
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pieces	compound
9	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 generous	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 generous	amod
12	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pieces	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the Sultan	thousand gold pieces	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient piece=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

Yeah he gave them the lot plus a horse and a cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 gave	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	9 horse	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lot	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cloak	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cloak	det
12	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	the lot plus a horse and a cloak	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient lot=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah he gave them the lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 gave	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj

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

Option 3

Nah he gave them some coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 gave	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 coins	det
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj

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

Option 4

Yeah he gave them the whole lot of gold and then some more for the feast

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 gave	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lot	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lot	amod
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 gold	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lot	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 more	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 more	advmod
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 more	det
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 gave	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 feast	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feast	det
16	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	the whole lot of gold	them = they			for the feast	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient lot=Theme for feast=Asset

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