Test 11 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…

Did the girls get rescued, ya reckon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: rescue, reckon · To what, where: girls

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» 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	5 rescued	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rescued	nsubj:pass
4	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rescued	aux:pass
5	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct
7	ya	ya	X	_	8 reckon	advmod
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rescued	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 rescued	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rescue	past · passive · do-support		the girls					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	reckon	infinitive							vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, Ian's sorting them both out, and they'll be home by dinner

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 sorting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sorting	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Ian	case
5	sorting	sort	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sorting	obj
7	both	both	ADV	_	8 out	advmod
8	out	out	ADV	_	5 sorting	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 home	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 home	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 home	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 home	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 home	cop
14	home	home	ADV	_	5 sorting	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 dinner	case
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 home	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	gerund		them = they				out property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	future	they					by dinner; home property	tree rules

Option 2

Aye, Ian's sorting them both out after he kills the giants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 sorting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sorting	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Ian	case
5	sorting	sort	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sorting	obj
7	both	both	ADV	_	8 out	advmod
8	out	out	ADV	_	5 sorting	advmod
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 kills	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kills	nsubj
11	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sorting	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giants	det
13	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	gerund		them = they				out property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	kill	present	Ian	the giants					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, Ian's sorting them both out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 sorting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sorting	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Ian	case
5	sorting	sort	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sorting	obj
7	both	both	ADV	_	8 out	advmod
8	out	out	ADV	_	5 sorting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	gerund		them = they				out property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Aye, Ian's freeing them both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 freeing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 freeing	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Ian	case
5	freeing	free	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 freeing	obj
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 freeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	gerund		them = they					tree rules

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