Test 4 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes…

Did Jem actually get the job, or was he just chatting?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jem · What happens: get, chat · To what, where: Jem

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1791 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes the duke's cook and meets a talking goose» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Jem	aux
2	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 job	det
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chatting	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 chatting	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 chatting	aux
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chatting	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 chatting	advmod
12	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 get	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present		Jem				actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus
2	chat speech: other	past · progressive	Jem						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Nah, he got sacked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sacked	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sacked	aux:pass
5	sacked	sack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sack	past · passive		he					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He nailed it, served loads of tasty bits

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 nailed	nsubj
2	nailed	nail	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 nailed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 served	punct
5	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nailed	conj
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 served	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bits	case
8	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bits	amod
9	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nail	past	He	it					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	serve	past	He not said here	loads of tasty bits					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Attribute

Option 3

Yeah, he got it

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He got it, he cooked proper good stuff

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	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 got	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cooked	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cooked	nsubj
6	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stuff	amod
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	cook	past	he	good stuff					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient

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