Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache…

Is it true the box goes off like a torpedo, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, box · What happens: be, go off

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 595 «Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache, a talking box, and a stranger who mistakes him» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 goes	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 box	det
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 goes	compound:prt
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 torpedo	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 torpedo	det
10	torpedo	torpedo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 torpedo	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					true property	tree rules
2	go off	present	the box					like a torpedo and bro	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, that's what they told him, anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 what	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that					anyway property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	they		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

Yeah, that's what they told him, anyway, though he never saw it go off himself

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anyway	punct
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 saw	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 saw	advmod
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 saw	xcomp
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 go	compound:prt
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 go	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	they		him = he	anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	not see	past	he	it			tree rules
4	go off	infinitive		himself = he			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, that's what the dude told him, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dude	det
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that					bro vocative	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the dude		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4

Nah, it doesn't go off at all, that's just what they told him at the mill store

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 go	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 what	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 what	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 what	advmod
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 go	conj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 store	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 store	det
20	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 store	compound
21	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	not go off	present · do-support	it		all	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location
2	is a	present	that			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	they	him = he	the mill store	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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