Test 4 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

How did George shut Jane up without getting chilblains, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: George · What happens: shut up, get · To what, where: Jane, chilblains

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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 shut	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	aux
3	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shut	nsubj
4	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shut	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 shut	compound:prt
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 getting	mark
8	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 shut	advcl
9	chilblains	chilblain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 getting	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chilblains	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up	past · do-support	George	Jane					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jane=Patient
2	get	gerund	George not said here	chilblains and bruv					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chilblain=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Told her to pretend to howl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Told	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pretend	mark
4	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Told	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 howl	mark
6	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretend	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	her = she	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	pretend not said to happen	to-infinitive		tree rules
3	howl	to-infinitive		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He told her to hum a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hum	mark
5	hum	hum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hum	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hum not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	a song					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic

Option 3

He gave her a sweet treat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 treat	det
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 treat	amod
6	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	a sweet treat	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient treat=Theme

Option 4

He shouted loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 shouted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	He					loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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