Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

Mate, why's Tommy going on about pudding, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tommy · What happens: go on, innit

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1967 «English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca with a sofa leg and runs home» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 innit	advmod
4	's	's	PART	_	3 why	case
5	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 innit	nsubj
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Tommy	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 pudding	case
9	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Tommy	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	gerund	Tommy not said here					about pudding	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about pudding=Location
2	innit	infinitive	Tommy						tree rules

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

To make Mrs Miacca forget about him entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forget	advcl
3	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mrs	flat
5	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forget	obl
8	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	5 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		Mrs					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mrs=Product
2	forget	present						about him = he; entirely property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To get off the hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 hook	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hook	det
5	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

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

Option 3

To buy some time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 buy	mark
2	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	to-infinitive					time		vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To save himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		himself = he					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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