Test 7 · ★ · Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leaves Martin's house and…

Ngl, what did the young eels tell him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: young eels · What happens: tell · To what, where: Ngl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 966 «Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leaves Martin's house and is jailed for Martin's murder» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eels	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eels	amod
7	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the young eels		Ngl			Ngl vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

go a little way beyond the bay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 way	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obl
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	7 bay	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bay	det
7	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	a little way		the bay			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond bay=Location

Option 2

go to the far shore and back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 shore	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shore	det
4	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shore	amod
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 back	cc
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shore	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			the far shore and back			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location

Option 3

stay in the bay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 bay	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bay	det
4	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			the bay			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bay=Location

Option 4

swim out past the rocks, fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 swim	compound:prt
3	past	past	ADP	_	5 rocks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rocks	det
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 swim	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fast	punct
7	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 swim	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim out	imperative	you not said here			the rocks			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past rock=Trajectory

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