Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: J…

Did he look back on the way home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: look back

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 255 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: Jack sneaks past the sleeping monsters, steals the apples, and heads home» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 look	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 look	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 way	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	past · do-support	he					on the way	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on way=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he looked back at the castle gate and waved goodbye to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gate	compound
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 waved	cc
11	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
12	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waved	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	past	he					at the castle gate	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gate=Theme
2	wave	past	he not said here	goodbye	her = she				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Theme to she=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he kept his head down and bolted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bolted	cc
9	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 kept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep down	past	he	his head				down property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	bolt	participle	he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he looked back loads, proper nervous, and nearly tripped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nervous	punct
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	9 nervous	advmod
9	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tripped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tripped	cc
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	13 tripped	advmod
13	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	past	he	loads					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme load=Attribute
2	trip	past	he not said here					nearly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he turned round and waved at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 waved	cc
7	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	past	he					round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	wave	past	he not said here					at her = she	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location

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