Test 10 · ★ · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

Did Martin clock that Jurgen was salty?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Martin clock

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» 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	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 clock	compound
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 salty	mark
5	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 salty	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 salty	cop
7	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Did	advcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Martin clock					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Eventuality
2	is	past	Jurgen					salty property	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

Nah, he didn't clock it at all because he was too busy fishing

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 clock	advmod
6	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 clock	nsubj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 did	obl
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 fishing	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fishing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fishing	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 busy	advmod
14	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fishing	amod
15	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	he		all	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not clock		clock			tree rules
3	is a	past	he	busy fishing		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he didn't clock it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 clock	advmod
6	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	clock					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he saw the knife and told the whole village about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 village	amod
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 village	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	the knife					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knife=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	he not said here	the whole village				about village	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent village=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 4

Nah, he was just angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 angry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					angry property	tree rules

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