Test 8 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

Real talk, what happened to the family after he died?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk, he · What happens: happen, die

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 family	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 family	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	obl
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 died	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 died	nsubj
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happened	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Real talk					to the family	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

They lost their lodge and food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lodge	nmod:poss
4	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 food	cc
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lodge	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	They	their lodge and food					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Eventuality

Option 2

They became poor and went hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	They					poor property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	go	past	They not said here					hungry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They got super broke and hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	super	super	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
4	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hungry	cc
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 broke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					broke, super property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

They lost all their furs, their lodge, and their food, and struggled through many long winter months

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 furs	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 furs	nmod:poss
5	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lost	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lodge	punct
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lodge	nmod:poss
8	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 furs	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 food	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 food	cc
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 food	nmod:poss
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 struggled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 struggled	cc
15	struggled	struggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lost	conj
16	through	through	ADP	_	20 months	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 months	amod
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 months	amod
19	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 months	compound
20	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 struggled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	They	their furs and furs's lodge				furs's food obl	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Eventuality
2	struggle	participle	They not said here				month		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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