--- title: Mate, did the Fitzwarren lot try to nick the cash? — English Fairy Tales, Whittington and H… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, did the Fitzwarren lot try to nick the cash? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1969 «English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1969-pg7439-part28/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [English Fairy Tales, Whittington and H…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1969-pg7439-part28/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi… Mate, did the Fitzwarren lot try to nick the cash? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** try, nick · **To what, where:** Fitzwarren lot, cash This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1969 «English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins» 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/1969-pg7439-part28/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1969-pg7439-part28:t4:1 # text = Mate, did the Fitzwarren lot try to nick the cash? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Fitzwarren Fitzwarren PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 nick nick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cash cash NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past · do-support | | the Fitzwarren lot | | | | Mate *vocative* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **nick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | the cash | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cash=Patient | 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} Yeah, they tried, but Dick caught them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1969-pg7439-part28:t4:o1:1 # text = Yeah, they tried, but Dick caught them 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 Dick Dick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | they | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **catch** | past | Dick | them *= they* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Yeah, they kept it all quietly ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1969-pg7439-part28:t4:o2:1 # text = Yeah, they kept it all quietly 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 all all ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | they | it | | | | quietly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Nah, Mr. Fitzwarren said he'd give it all back ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1969-pg7439-part28:t4:o3:1 # text = Nah, Mr. Fitzwarren said he'd give it all back 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:desc _ _ 4 Fitzwarren Fitzwarren PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 all all ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fitzwarren Mr. | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** | would | Fitzwarren | it | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Yeah, they took the lot ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1969-pg7439-part28:t4:o4:1 # text = Yeah, they took the lot 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | they | the lot | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | **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. 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