Test 10 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor…

What did the grouse do, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grouse · What happens: do · To what, where: grouse

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 644 «The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: George and Jane race down a great ice slide and meet a sportsman, a collector and a white grouse» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grouse	det
4	grouse	grouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grouse	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 then	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 did	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the grouse			then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grouse=Eventuality
2	do	present	the grouse not said here						vn act-114-1 «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

Thanked them, dead polite and that, then waddled off down the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Thanked	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 polite	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 polite	amod
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Thanked	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 that	cc
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 polite	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waddled	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 waddled	advmod
10	waddled	waddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Thanked	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 waddled	compound:prt
12	down	down	ADP	_	14 ice	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ice	det
14	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waddled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past			them = they				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	waddle off	past				the ice	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down ice=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Thanked them, dead polite and that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Thanked	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 polite	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 polite	amod
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Thanked	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 that	cc
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 polite	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past			them = they				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Thanked them, dead polite and that, then flew off home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Thanked	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 polite	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 polite	amod
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Thanked	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 that	cc
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 polite	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flew	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 flew	advmod
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Thanked	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 flew	compound:prt
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past			them = they				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	fly off	past		home			then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location home=Theme

Option 4

Said cheers, dead polite, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Said	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 polite	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 polite	amod
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cheers	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cheers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		cheers and mate					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cheer=Topic

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