Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, p…

Did the whistle thing actually get him there or did he walk it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whistle thing, he · What happens: do, get, walk · To what, where: whistle thing, him, thing

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1736 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, part 60: the Irishman learns from an Eagle where the Princess is» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	compound
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thing	acl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 get	advmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 walk	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 walk	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walk	nsubj
12	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walk	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		the whistle thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	get	infinitive	the whistle thing not said here	him = he	there	actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	walk	past · do-support	he	thing			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

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 whistle got him there, sick, walked nowhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 whistle	det
2	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sick	punct
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walked	punct
9	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sick	conj
10	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the whistle	him = he		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	walk	participle	the whistle not said here					nowhere property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The whistle got him there before nightfall, sick, though he was knackered after the trip

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 whistle	det
2	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 nightfall	case
7	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sick	punct
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nightfall	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knackered	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 knackered	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knackered	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 knackered	aux:pass
14	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	conj
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 trip	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trip	det
17	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knackered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the whistle	him = he		there	before nightfall		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	knacker	past · passive		he			after the trip		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The whistle got him there before nightfall, sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 whistle	det
2	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 nightfall	case
7	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sick	punct
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nightfall	amod

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

Option 4

Yeah, the whistle did it, proper sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 whistle	det
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sick	amod
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 did	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the whistle	it				sick property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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