Test 9 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

why did he finally go back on the fourth night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: go back

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	finally	finally	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
9	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 night	amod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past · do-support	he				night	finally property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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

the forest pulled him way too hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 forest	det
2	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulled	obj
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	the forest	him = he				hard property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Theme way=Result

Option 2

the forest pulled him way too hard, and the Yara's singing got into his head every single night

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 forest	det
2	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulled	obj
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 pulled	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Yara	det
11	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 singing	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Yara	case
13	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	nsubj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obl
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 night	det
19	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 night	amod
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	the forest	him = he			hard property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Theme way=Result
2	get	past	the Yara's singing		singing's head	night		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into head=Destination
3	sing		the Yara					nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

the river looked so cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 cool	advmod
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the river					cool property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

he wanted a fresh swim

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swim	det
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swim	amod
5	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

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

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