Test 3 · ★ · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

Was Jurgen's foster-dad already proper poorly in the boat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: foster dad

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dad	cop
2	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dad	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Jurgen	case
4	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dad	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 foster	punct
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boat	csubj
7	already	already	ADV	_	12 boat	advmod
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 boat	advmod
9	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	12 boat	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 boat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boat	det
12	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 boat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Jurgen's foster dad					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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was actually fine until they reached the reef, then fever hit him hard

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 fine	advmod
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reef	det
11	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hit	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 hit	advmod
14	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hit	nsubj
15	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hit	obj
17	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 hit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			actually, fine property	tree rules
2	reach	past	they	the reef			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent reef=Theme
3	hit	past	fever	him = he	then	hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he was properly ill with a high fever and couldn't move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 ill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ill	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ill	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 ill	advmod
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 fever	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fever	det
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fever	amod
10	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ill	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 move	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 move	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 move	advmod
14	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					with a high fever; ill, properly property	tree rules
2	not move	could	he not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he was just tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, fever got him bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	fever	him = he				bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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