Test 5 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

Ugh, did he really die from eating some berries?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: die, eat · To what, where: berries

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» 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	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	6 die	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ugh	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 die	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 die	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 die	advmod
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 eating	mark
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 die	advcl
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 berries	det
10	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eating	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · do-support	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	eat	gerund	he not said here	some berries					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, they were poisonous and he got sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 poisonous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poisonous	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poisonous	cop
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poisonous	conj
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					poisonous property	tree rules
2	get	past	he					sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yeah, they were bad and he got fever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bad	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bad	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	conj
9	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj

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

Option 3

Yes, they were rotten and he got ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 rotten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rotten	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rotten	cop
5	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rotten	conj
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					rotten property	tree rules
2	get	past	he					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nope, he was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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