Test 6 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

Wait, so what made the ball roll home all sad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, make, roll · To what, where: ball, sad

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 roll	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ball	det
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 roll	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 sad	det
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roll	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past		the ball		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material ball=Product
3	roll	present	you not said here	all sad	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It rolled back to grandma as if lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rolled	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 rolled	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 grandma	case
5	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolled	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 lost	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 as	fixed
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rolled	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll back	past	It		grandma				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to grandma=Destination
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It rolled into the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rolled	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past	It			the river			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into river=Destination

Option 3

It rolled home because he was sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rolled	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 rolled	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 sad	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sad	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	cop
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rolled	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past	It					home property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	he					sad property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It went back to his granny like it was lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 granny	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 granny	nmod:poss
6	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 lost	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux:pass
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	It					to his granny result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to granny=Result
2	lose	past · passive		it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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