Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

Did the English dude get the eagle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: English dude · What happens: do, get · To what, where: eagle

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
3	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dude	amod
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eagle	det
7	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	the English dude	the eagle					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=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

yeah, but Rudy got a better deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 got	cc
4	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Rudy	a better deal					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nope, Rudy was like, not happening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	8 happening	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 nope	vocative
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	cop
5	like	like	INTJ	_	3 Rudy	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 happening	advmod
8	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not happen	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

nah, Rudy kept the bird for himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Rudy	the bird				for Rudy	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

Option 4

yeah, the Englishman got it, but Rudy then stole it back that same night from the inn yard

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Englishman	det
4	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stole	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 stole	cc
9	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stole	nsubj
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stole	advmod
11	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stole	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 stole	advmod
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 night	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 night	amod
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stole	obl:unmarked
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 yard	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 yard	det
19	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 yard	compound
20	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the Englishman	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	steal back	past	Rudy	Englishman			then; night	from the inn yard	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from yard=Source

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