Test 1 · ★ · The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Makoma, part…

Yo, so why did Makoma dive in that pool, was he just being reckless?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Makoma · What happens: dive, be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1135 «The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Makoma, part 1: a strong boy beats crocodiles and a giant» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 dive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 dive	advmod
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 dive	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dive	aux
6	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dive	nsubj
7	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pool	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 pool	det
10	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dive	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reckless	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reckless	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reckless	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 reckless	advmod
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 reckless	cop
16	reckless	reckless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dive	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	past · do-support	Makoma					in that pool	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in pool=Attribute
2	is	past	Makoma					reckless 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 · ← Mova's choice

To show all the people of Senna that he was the strongest man alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 people	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	iobj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Senna	case
7	Senna	Senna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 people	nmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 man	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 man	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	ccomp
14	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive			all people of Senna				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
2	is a	past	Senna	the strongest man					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To show everyone he was the strongest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 show	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 strongest	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 strongest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 strongest	det
7	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive			everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	is	past	he					strong property	tree rules

Option 3

To prove he was brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prove	mark
2	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brave	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	cop
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 prove	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	to-infinitive							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					brave property	tree rules

Option 4

Because the crocodiles had stolen his mother's goat and he wanted revenge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 stolen	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crocodiles	det
3	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stolen	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stolen	aux
5	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goat	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mother	case
9	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stolen	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wanted	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stolen	conj
13	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect · passive		the crocodiles					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary goat=Theme
2	want	past	goat	revenge					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme

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