Test 3 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason…

Bruv, why did Jason nearly chuck it on the rocks?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: chuck · To what, where: Jason, rocks

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chuck	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Jason	aux
5	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	obl
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 chuck	advmod
7	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chuck	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 rocks	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rocks	det
11	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chuck	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	present		Jason		the rocks		Bruv vocative; nearly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on rock=Destination

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 current pulled him sideways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 current	det
2	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	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 pulled	obj
5	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	3 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	the current	him = he				sideways property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He slipped on wet rocks

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 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 rocks	case
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rocks	amod
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	He			wet rocks			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

His foot got stuck in a crack and the current nearly swept him away

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 foot	nmod:poss
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 crack	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crack	det
7	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swept	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 current	det
10	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swept	nsubj
11	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	12 swept	advmod
12	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swept	obj
14	away	away	ADV	_	12 swept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	His foot			a crack		stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	sweep away	past	the current	foot				away, nearly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His foot got stuck in a crack

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 foot	nmod:poss
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 crack	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crack	det
7	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	His foot			a crack		stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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