Test 1 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason…

Yo, did the old lady really make him carry her across the river, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: him · What happens: do, make, carry · To what, where: old lady, him, her, river

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2077 «A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason carries an old woman across a river and loses a sandal» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 make	advmod
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carry	obj
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carry	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
16	like	like	INTJ	_	8 make	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 real	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 real	case
19	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past		the old lady		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality
2	make	present		him = he		tree rules
3	carry	infinitive	him = he not said here	her = she	the river	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was proper bossy about it, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 bossy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bossy	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bossy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bossy	cop
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 bossy	advmod
6	bossy	bossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bossy	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 bossy	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					about it; bossy, properly property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, she was dead rude about it, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 rude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rude	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rude	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rude	amod
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rude	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rude	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 rude	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					about it; rude property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she made him carry her over the river and then gave him a right telling-off, innit

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carry	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 gave	advmod
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 off	det
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 off	amod
17	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 off	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 off	punct
19	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 innit	punct
21	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 off	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	past	she	him = he				tree rules
2	carry	infinitive	him = he not said here	her = she		the river		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	give	past	she not said here	a right telling off and innit	him = he		then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient off=Theme

Option 4

Nah, she just asked him politely, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 asked	advmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	iobj
7	politely	politely	ADV	_	5 asked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	she		him = he			mate vocative; politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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