Test 8 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor…

How did they stop on that slide?

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

This is test 8 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stop	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	nsubj
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 slide	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 slide	det
7	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past · do-support	they			that slide			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

They just fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	They						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They tumbled, the only way, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tumbled	nsubj
2	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tumbled	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tumbled	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tumble	past	They	the only way and innit					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

They tumbled, the only way, innit, right over and over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tumbled	nsubj
2	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tumbled	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 tumbled	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 over	punct
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 over	advmod
11	over	over	ADV	_	2 tumbled	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 over	cc
13	over	over	ADV	_	11 over	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tumble	past	They					over property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

They rolled off, the only way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rolled	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 rolled	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll off	past	They	the only way					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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