Test 2 · ★ · Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries t…

Bro, why did the husband fake being sick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, husband · What happens: do, be · To what, where: husband

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1212 «Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries the gold and the bridge, and Ball-Carrier goes home» 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	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Bro	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 husband	det
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sick	amod
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sick	cop
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 husband	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the husband					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	the husband not said here					sick 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

He wanted more food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	more food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted the roast bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	compound
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the roast bird					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bird=Theme

Option 3

He hoped for the bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hoped	nsubj
2	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 bird	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hoped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	He					for the bird	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for bird=Theme

Option 4

He wanted the roasted bird for himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the roasted bird				for bird	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bird=Theme
2	roast	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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