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title: Proper skint, Don Giovanni, yeah? what happened to his cash? — Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper skint, Don Giovanni, yeah? what happened to his cash? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1675 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the oven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the o…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Proper skint, Don Giovanni, yeah? what happened to his cash?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Don · **What happens:** happen, cash

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1675 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the oven» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1675-pg5615-part64/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t7:1
# text = Proper skint, Don Giovanni, yeah? what happened to his cash?
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	skint	skint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
5	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
10	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to Don's cash | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cash** |  | Don |  |  |  |  |  | nom cash «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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he gave it away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t7:o1:1
# text = he gave it away
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give away** | past | he | it |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he threw it all into the river one night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t7:o2:1
# text = he threw it all into the river one night
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | he | it |  |  | night | into the river *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into river=Result |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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he spent it all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t7:o3:1
# text = he spent it all
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he gave every coin to his cousins and friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1675-pg5615-part64:t7:o4:1
# text = he gave every coin to his cousins and friends
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | he | every coin | his cousins and friends |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent coin=Theme to cousin=Recipient |

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