Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…

did the little boy get in trouble for the onions, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little boy · What happens: get · To what, where: trouble

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 578 «Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets eaten» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 onions	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 onions	det
10	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 though	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 get	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the little boy			trouble		for the onions	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for onion=Source

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

idk, he couldn't remember what he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	idk	idk	INTJ	_	6 remember	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 idk	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 remember	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 remember	advmod
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 did	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not remember	could	he						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

idk, he couldn't remember what he did and nobody ever told him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	idk	idk	INTJ	_	6 remember	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 idk	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 remember	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 remember	advmod
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 did	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 told	nsubj
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 told	advmod
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	not remember	could	he			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	past	he			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	past	nobody	him = he	ever	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

yeah he got whipped cause he lied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 whipped	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whipped	nsubj
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whipped	aux:pass
4	whipped	whip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	7 lied	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lied	nsubj
7	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whipped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	past · passive		he					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
2	lie	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

idk, he couldn't remember what he did but he sure got a whipping anyway

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	idk	idk	INTJ	_	6 remember	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 idk	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 remember	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 remember	advmod
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 did	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	ccomp
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 he	conj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 did	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 whipping	det
15	whipping	whipping	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obj
16	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	13 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not remember	could	he			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	past	he			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	get	past	he	a whipping	anyway property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whipping=Stimulus

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