Test 3 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di…

Bro, why did the whole family drink the poison?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole family · What happens: drink · To what, where: poison

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drink	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drink	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 drink	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drink	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 family	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 family	amod
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drink	nsubj
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 poison	det
10	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drink	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 drink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · do-support	the whole family	the poison				Bro vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient

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

Because the medicine-man said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 medicine	punct
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	6 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the medicine man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Cos they were thirsty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 thirsty	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thirsty	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thirsty	cop
4	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Because the buffalo was dead and they reckoned they had to die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 dead	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 buffalo	det
3	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 reckoned	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reckoned	nsubj
8	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	conj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 die	mark
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the buffalo	dead property	tree rules
2	reckon	past	they		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	they		tree rules
4	die	to-infinitive	they not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Because the buffalo had died and they believed they had to follow it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 died	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 buffalo	det
3	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	aux
5	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 believed	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 died	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 believed	nsubj
8	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 believed	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 follow	mark
12	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	the buffalo		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	believe	past	they		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	past	they		tree rules
4	follow	to-infinitive	they not said here	buffalo	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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