Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…

Oi, why'd Jack scarper from his dad's gaff, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: scarper · To what, where: gaff

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1973 «English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Jack gets three magic gifts, loses two, and wins his sweetheart» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scarper	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scarper	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 scarper	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 scarper	aux
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 scarper	nsubj
6	scarper	scarper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 gaff	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dad	nmod:poss
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gaff	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 dad	case
11	gaff	gaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scarper	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gaff	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scarper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scarper	would	Oi			Jack's dad's gaff and mate			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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

His dad was proper nasty to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nasty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nasty	cop
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nasty	amod
5	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nasty	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His dad		him = he			nasty property	tree rules

Option 2

Dad was skint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skint	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 skint	cop
3	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dad					skint property	tree rules

Option 3

Dad forced him to work in the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forced	nsubj
2	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forced	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forced	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mill	det
8	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	past	Dad	him = he					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	work	to-infinitive	him = he not said here					in the mill	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mill=Theme

Option 4

His dad kept him locked in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	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 kept	obj
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 kept	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	His dad	him = he					tree rules
2	lock in	participle	him = he not said here						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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