Test 6 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

Be real, what was the boy's dad's vibe when he got home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, boy · What happens: be, get · To what, where: vibe

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 vibe	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 vibe	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 vibe	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dad	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 boy	case
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vibe	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 dad	case
11	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 real	conj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 got	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 got	nsubj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 vibe	advcl
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 got	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		real property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the boy's dad's vibe		tree rules
3	get	past	boy		home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He would beat him hard with his belt

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	3 beat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 beat	aux
3	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beat	obj
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 beat	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 belt	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 belt	nmod:poss
8	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	would	He	him = he				with his belt; hard property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with belt=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He would beat him

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	3 beat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 beat	aux
3	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	would	He	him = he					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

Option 3

He would ignore him

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	3 ignore	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ignore	aux
3	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	would	He	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

He would send him away

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	3 send	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 send	aux
3	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 send	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	would	He	him = he				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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