Test 3 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor…

Did the sportsman get his grouse?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sportsman · What happens: get · To what, where: grouse

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sportsman	det
3	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grouse	nmod:poss
6	grouse	grouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the sportsman	sportsman's grouse					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grouse=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, George said no, so he skived off up the hill in a huff

The tree, 14 words

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	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 skived	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 skived	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 skived	nsubj
9	skived	skive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 skived	compound:prt
11	up	up	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skived	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 huff	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 huff	det
16	huff	huff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	George						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
2	skive off	past	George			a huff		up the hill	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, George said no, so he skived off

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	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 skived	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 skived	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 skived	nsubj
9	skived	skive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 skived	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	George						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
2	skive off	past	George						tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he never got one, so he left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 left	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 left	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	past	he	one					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	leave	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he got nothing, so he went

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 got	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	go	past	he						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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