Test 11 · ★ · Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the h…

Why did the army turn back at that tree, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: army · What happens: turn back · To what, where: tree

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1218 «Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the hare brings fire home, the turtle goes to war for his bride» 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 turn	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 army	det
4	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past · do-support	the army			that tree and bruv			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

They could not get past it

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	4 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	They			it			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past it=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The tree had fallen across the path and they could not climb over it safely

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fallen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fallen	aux
4	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 path	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 path	det
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fallen	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 climb	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 climb	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 climb	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 climb	advmod
12	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fallen	conj
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 climb	obl
15	safely	safely	ADV	_	12 climb	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	the tree			the path			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across path=Initial_Location
2	not climb	could	they			tree		safely property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory

Option 3

They decided the tree was a bad omen and walked away

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 decided	nsubj
2	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 omen	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 omen	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 omen	det
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 omen	amod
8	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 decided	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walked	cc
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 decided	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	decide	past	They			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the tree	a bad omen		tree rules
3	walk away	past	They not said here		away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It blocked the way completely

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 blocked	nsubj
2	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blocked	obj
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	2 blocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	past	It	the way				completely property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer way=Theme

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