Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Glass Axe, part 1: a prince who touches th…

Did he get proper good at riding, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: get · To what, where: riding

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1709 «Fairy Book, The Glass Axe, part 1: a prince who touches the ground is stolen by a Fairy and set an impossible task» 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	3 get	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 good	amod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 riding	case
7	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	3 get	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	he			riding		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yeah, he became a first-rate rider, better than all the courtiers who had trained him

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 became	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rider	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 rate	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 first	punct
8	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rider	compound
9	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 became	parataxis
12	than	than	ADP	_	15 courtiers	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 courtiers	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 courtiers	det
15	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 better	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 trained	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 trained	aux
18	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 courtiers	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 trained	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	he	a rate rider					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	train	past · perfect · passive		all courtiers					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he became a first-rate rider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 became	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rider	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 rate	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 first	punct
8	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rider	compound
9	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	he	a rate rider					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nah, he never rode well because his legs stayed weak and the doctors stopped the lessons

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rode	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 rode	advmod
5	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 rode	advmod
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 stayed	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stayed	nsubj
10	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rode	advcl
11	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stayed	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stopped	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doctors	det
14	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stopped	nsubj
15	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rode	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lessons	det
17	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stopped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not ride	past	he		well property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	past	his legs		weak property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	past	the doctors	the lessons		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality lesson=Eventuality

Option 4

Yeah, he got really good, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse

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

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