Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

Did anybody in the office ask what's wrong with him?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do, ask, be · To what, where: anybody, office · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 594 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30: a proud coast servant brags, Remus teases back, then a toothache sends him grumbling to the office» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Did	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 office	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 office	det
5	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obl
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 wrong	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wrong	cop
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ask	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wrong	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	anybody			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	present		the office		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			with him = he; wrong property	tree rules

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

Yeah, a few of them asked what the matter was and then went back to teasing him

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 few	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 few	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 asked	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 few	nmod
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 asked	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 matter	det
10	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 what	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 went	advmod
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	to	to	SCONJ	_	17 teasing	mark
17	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 went	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 teasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	a few of them			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the matter			tree rules
3	go back	past	the matter not said here		then	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	tease	gerund	the matter not said here	him = he		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, someone asked what the matter was, and Remus just waved them off sadly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 asked	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 matter	det
7	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waved	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 waved	cc
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 waved	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 waved	advmod
13	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 waved	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	13 waved	compound:prt
16	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	13 waved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	someone						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	wave off	past	Remus	them = they				sadly property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, someone asked him 'bout it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
7	bout	bout	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	someone		him = he			bout it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, someone asked what the matter was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 asked	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 matter	det
7	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	someone						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the matter						tree rules

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