Test 2 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, Peter and the Golden-haired Maiden: Pete…

bruv those dogs took ages to come, innit

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: take, come, innit · To what, where: ages

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 706 «Brown Fairy Book, Peter and the Golden-haired Maiden: Peter calls his dogs and wins back the girl» 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 dogs	det
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	past	bruv	ages	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent age=Theme clause=Attribute
2	come	to-infinitive	bruv not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	innit	infinitive	bruv not said here		tree rules

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

Yeah they only came back on the third shout after ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 shout	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shout	det
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 shout	amod
9	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 ages	case
11	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	they			the third shout	after ages		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shout=Location

Option 2

Nah they got there right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 got	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	they			there		away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah they came on the second go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 came	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 go	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 go	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 go	amod
7	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they			the second go			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on go=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah they only came on the third shout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 shout	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shout	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 shout	amod
8	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they			the third shout			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shout=Location

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