Test 11 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, Peter and the Golden-haired Maiden: Pete…

did they run through all their money or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: run · To what, where: money

This is test 11 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 money	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 money	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 money	nmod:poss
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 run	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · do-support	they			their money			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through money=Trajectory

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 they spent most of it on wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 spent	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spent	nsubj
3	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 spent	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 most	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 wine	case
8	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	they	most of it				on wine goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent most=Asset on wine=Goal

Option 2

Nah they hid the coins under a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 hid	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coins	det
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hid	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	they	the coins		a stone			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coin=Patient under stone=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah they sold everything bar a cloak and a blanket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sold	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sold	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 bar	compound
5	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloak	det
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blanket	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 blanket	det
10	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cloak	conj

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

Option 4

Yeah they sold everything bar a cloak and a blanket and then started begging in the square

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sold	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sold	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 bar	compound
5	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloak	det
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blanket	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 blanket	det
10	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cloak	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 started	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 started	advmod
13	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	conj
14	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 started	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 square	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 square	det
17	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 begging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sell	past	they	everything bar			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bar=Recipient cloak=Theme
2	start	past	they not said here			then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	beg speech: request	gerund	they not said here		the square		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

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