Test 8 · ★ · Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the ri…

Is he proper gassed about going after Sakatirina, or just well scared?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, go

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1136 «Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the river spirit, then is sent to find Sakatirina» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gassed	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gassed	nsubj
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 gassed	advmod
4	gassed	gas	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gassed	advcl
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 Sakatirina	case
8	Sakatirina	Sakatirina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scared	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 scared	cc
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 scared	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 scared	advmod
13	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gassed	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gassed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					gas, properly property	tree rules
2	go	gerund	he not said here				after Sakatirina		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

he is really excited but also quite nervous about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 excited	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 excited	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 excited	advmod
4	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 nervous	cc
6	also	also	ADV	_	8 nervous	advmod
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 nervous	advmod
8	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 excited	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nervous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					excited property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here					about it	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he went alone, as ordered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ordered	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 ordered	mark
6	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	order	participle							vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he took his two friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friends	nmod:poss
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 friends	nummod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he		his two friends				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument friend=Destination

Option 4

he went alone, as ordered, and didn't look back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ordered	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 ordered	case
6	ordered	ordered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 look	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 look	advmod
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not look back	past · do-support	he not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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