Test 4 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleto…

Did that hopping bloke really tie his leg up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hopping bloke · What happens: do, hop, tie up · To what, where: hopping bloke, leg

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1722 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleton gathers strange companions for his ship» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 bloke	det
3	hopping	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bloke	amod
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 tie	advmod
6	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bloke	acl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 leg	nmod:poss
8	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tie	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	6 tie	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		that hopping bloke	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloke=Eventuality
2	hop	gerund			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tie up	infinitive	that hopping bloke not said here	his leg	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, cos he'd get to the end of the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 get	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	he				to the end of the earth		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to end=Result

Option 2

Nah, cos he'd fall over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 fall	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fall	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	over	over	ADV	_	6 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall over	would	he					over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, cos he'd get to the end of the earth quicker than any horse could ever run

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 get	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 run	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod
13	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 earth	amod
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 horse	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quicker	obl
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 run	aux
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 run	advmod
19	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	he				to the end of the earth		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to end=Result
2	run	could					ever		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, cos he'd reach the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 reach	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reach	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 reach	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reach	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 reach	aux
6	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	would	he	the sea					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=Theme

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