Test 6 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor…

Did they go uphill or downhill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: go

This is test 6 · ★ 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	uphill	uphill	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 downhill	cc
6	downhill	downhill	ADV	_	4 uphill	conj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	they					uphill property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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

Uphill, the sledge went up that way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uphill	uphill	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Uphill	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sledge	det
4	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	the sledge	that way				uphill property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Downhill, the slide goes all the way down, and we went down it too

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Downhill	downhill	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Downhill	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slide	det
4	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 down	obl
9	down	down	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 goes	parataxis
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	obl
16	too	too	ADV	_	13 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the slide					down, downhill property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go down	past	we	slide				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Downhill, the slide goes all the way to the bottom, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Downhill	downhill	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Downhill	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slide	det
4	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 bottom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottom	det
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bottom	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the slide	all way		the bottom and innit		downhill property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Downhill, the slide goes all the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Downhill	downhill	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Downhill	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slide	det
4	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the slide	all way				downhill property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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