Test 2 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Gilguerillo, part 63: the chemist's boy he…

Mate, how did he even get that plant?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, get · To what, where: plant

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1197 «Gutenberg 3027, Gilguerillo, part 63: the chemist's boy heals the king's foot and wins the princess's heart» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 plant	det
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate						tree rules
2	get	present	Mate	that plant					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus

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

He dug it up with a spade in the garden

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 dug	nsubj
2	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dug	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 dug	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 spade	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spade	det
7	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dug	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dug	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	past	He	it		the garden		with a spade	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with spade=Instrument

Option 2

He just found 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	3 found	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 found	advmod
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	He	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

He paid a farmer to go and get 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	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 paid	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 get	cc
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pay	past	He	a farmer	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Asset
2	go	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	infinitive	He not said here	farmer	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He crawled on his hands and knees in the wood

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 crawled	nsubj
2	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 hands	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crawled	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 knees	cc
7	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hands	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crawled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	He			his hands and knees		in the wood	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory

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