Test 12 · ★ · Gutenberg 540, Renelde the Spinner: Renelde keeps spinning…

Did the dad get Jack a job on the ice?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: get · To what, where: job, Jack

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1569 «Gutenberg 540, Renelde the Spinner: Renelde keeps spinning through soldiers, the Count's rage and the endless nettles, then sews his shroud» 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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dad	det
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 job	det
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 ice	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ice	det
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 job	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the dad	a job	Jack				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent jack=Beneficiary job=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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, the man in the carriage took him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 carriage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carriage	det
7	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the man in the carriage		him = he				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Option 2

nah, the man in the carriage took him away instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 carriage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carriage	det
7	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 took	advmod
11	instead	instead	ADV	_	8 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	past	the man in the carriage	him = he				away, instead property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

yeah, the dad got him work at the mill on the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 mill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mill	det
10	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the dad	work	him = he	the mill		on the river	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary work=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, a farmer got him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	a farmer	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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