Test 9 · ★ · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

Gutted, what did Tom find at work every morning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: gut, find · To what, where: work

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 find	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Gutted	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 work	case
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle							vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	find	past · do-support	Tom			work	morning		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Theme at work=Asset

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

all the work already done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 work	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 work	det
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 done	advmod
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 work	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle		all work not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the ploughing finished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ploughing	det
2	ploughing	ploughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ploughing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	participle		the ploughing not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

a whole field ploughed by someone in the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 field	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 field	amod
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	ploughed	plough	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 field	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 someone	case
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 ploughed	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ploughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plough	participle		a whole field not said here			night	by someone	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the work already done, every task finished for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 work	det
2	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finished	nsubj
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 work	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 finished	punct
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 task	det
7	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finished	nsubj
8	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 finished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle		the work not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	finish	past	the work					for task	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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