Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the…

Ayo, did the boy get a ride home or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ayo, boy · What happens: do, get · To what, where: ride

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 589 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the old man refuses more tales, then offers a ride and a string of sayings and songs» 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	Ayo	Ayo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ayo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ride	det
8	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 get	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ayo						tree rules
2	get	present	the boy	a ride				home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ride=Stimulus

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

Nah, he said the boy was too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heavy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heavy	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 heavy	advmod
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the boy					heavy property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, the old man refused and sent the boy off walking alone down the road

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refused	nsubj
6	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 refused	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	8 sent	compound:prt
12	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sent	advcl
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 walking	advmod
14	down	down	ADP	_	16 road	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the old man				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	send off	past	the old man not said here	the boy			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
3	walk	gerund	the old man not said here		the road	alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down road=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the old man was about to tote him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 about	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 about	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 about	cop
7	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tote	mark
9	tote	tote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 about	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old man					about property	tree rules
2	tote	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	man					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, the mule pulled him home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pulled	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mule	det
4	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	nsubj
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulled	obj
7	home	home	ADV	_	5 pulled	advmod

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

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