Test 13 · ★ · Jurgen, Jurgen, part 175: a boy rides to a funeral, then s…
lowkey, did Jurgen say his bad words out loud on the ship?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, Jurgen · What happens: say, word · To what, where: bad words, ship · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 964 «Jurgen, Jurgen, part 175: a boy rides to a funeral, then sails out and sees a Spanish city» 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 loud | advmod |
| 10 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 ship | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ship | det |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | lowkey | Jurgen's bad words | the ship | loud property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||
| 2 | word | Jurgen | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
nah, he gulped them down and kept quiet while the sailors laughed at him
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 gulped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gulped | nsubj |
| 4 | gulped | gulp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gulped | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 gulped | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kept | cc |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gulped | conj |
| 9 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kept | xcomp |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 laughed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sailors | det |
| 12 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 laughed | nsubj |
| 13 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laughed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gulp down | past | he | them = they | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | he not said here | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | the sailors | at him = he | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
yeah, he swore at the captain loudly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 swore | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swore | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swore | nsubj |
| 4 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 captain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 captain | det |
| 7 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swore | obl |
| 8 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 4 swore | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | he | the captain | loudly property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah, he wrote them down quietly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wrote | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wrote | nsubj |
| 4 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wrote | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 wrote | compound:prt |
| 7 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 4 wrote | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | past | he | them = they | quietly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah, he gulped them down and kept quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 gulped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gulped | nsubj |
| 4 | gulped | gulp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gulped | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 gulped | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kept | cc |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gulped | conj |
| 9 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kept | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gulp down | past | he | them = they | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | he not said here | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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