Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the B…

lol, did Uncle Remus get mad when the kid laughed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uncle, kid · What happens: do, get, laugh

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 587 «Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the Bad Man and ends up as a light between heaven and earth» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Uncle	flat
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 laughed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kid	det
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laughed	nsubj
11	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mad	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	get	present	Uncle	mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	laugh	past	the kid		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

no, he kept on working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	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	on	on	ADP	_	6 working	case
6	working	working	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he			working			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on working=Location

Option 2

yes, he got mad and threw his hammer at the kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 threw	cc
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hammer	nmod:poss
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 kid	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kid	det
12	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	throw	past	he not said here	his hammer				at the kid	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme at kid=Destination

Option 3

yes, he kept on yelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	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	on	on	ADP	_	6 yelling	case
6	yelling	yelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he			yelling			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on yelling=Location

Option 4

no, he just kept on working and never looked up at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 working	mark
7	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 kept	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 looked	advmod
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 looked	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	work	gerund	he not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not look up	past	he not said here	at all	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme

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