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Test 4 · ★★ · Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to…

Toad's sentence: one year for stealing the car, three for driving dangerously, fifteen for cheeking the police. What is wrong with that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one year, Toad · What happens: steal, drive, cheek, sentence, be · To what, where: car, police

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 84 «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history 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

Sentence 1: Toad's sentence: one year for stealing the car, three for driving dangerously, fifteen for cheeking the police.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sentence	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Toad	case
3	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fifteen	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 year	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 year	nummod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sentence	appos
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 stealing	mark
8	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 year	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 car	det
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stealing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 three	punct
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 year	conj
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 driving	mark
14	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 three	advcl
15	dangerously	dangerously	ADV	_	14 driving	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fifteen	punct
17	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 cheeking	mark
19	cheeking	cheek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 fifteen	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 police	det
21	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cheeking	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 fifteen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund	one year not said here	the car					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme
2	drive	gerund						dangerously property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	cheek	gerund		the police					tree rules
4	sentence		Toad						nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong with that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with that; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The theft of the car should have got nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 theft	det
2	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 car	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 theft	nmod
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 got	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 got	aux
8	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 got	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	should · perfect	the theft of the car	nothing		all			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme at all=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The smallest wrong, rudeness, gets by far the biggest punishment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wrong	det
2	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 wrong	amod
3	wrong	wrong	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rudeness	punct
5	rudeness	rudeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	12 punishment	case
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 punishment	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 punishment	det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 punishment	amod
12	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the smallest wrong and rudeness					by the biggest punishment	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nothing, that is exactly how it should be done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 done	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Nothing	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 done	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 done	advmod
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 done	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 done	nsubj:pass
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 done	aux:pass
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should · present · passive		Nothing				do, exactly property	tree rules

Option 4

Driving fast was not a crime at all in those days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 crime	csubj
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Driving	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crime	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 crime	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crime	det
6	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 crime	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 days	det
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	gerund						fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past	Driving	a crime		all			tree 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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