Test 11 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason…
Was Jason knackered after carrying her, or did he get a boost?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jason, he · What happens: be, carry, get · To what, where: Jason, boost
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knackered | cop |
| 2 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knackered | nsubj |
| 3 | knackered | knacker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 carrying | mark |
| 5 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 knackered | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carrying | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knackered | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boost | det |
| 13 | boost | boost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 knackered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jason | knacker property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | Jason not said here | Jason | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past · do-support | he | a boost | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boost=Stimulus |
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
He was exhausted
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 | 3 exhausted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 3 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | past · passive | He | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He felt stronger than before
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 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 before | case |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 stronger | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | He | strong property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
He felt much more tired
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 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 tired | advmod |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | He | tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
He felt weaker than before
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 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 before | case |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 weaker | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | He | weak property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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