Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big…

the bear's shadow went back home showing the wounds, that's creepy af

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: shadow, that, bear · What happens: go back, show, be, shadow · To what, where: wounds, creepy af

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1222 «Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers, part 2: the bear chief's servant lures the hunters into the mountain» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shadow	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bear	case
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	home	home	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
8	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wounds	det
10	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 showing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 af	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 af	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 af	cop
14	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 af	amod
15	af	af	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the bear's shadow		home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	show	gerund	the bear's shadow not said here	the wounds		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wound=Recipient
3	is a	present	that	creepy af		tree rules
4	shadow		the bear			nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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

Yeah, it showed the hunters' damage and the wounds of the dogs that had chased it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 showed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 showed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 showed	nsubj
4	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hunters	det
6	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 damage	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 hunters	case
8	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 chased	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wounds	det
11	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chased	nsubj:pass
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 dogs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dogs	det
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chased	nsubj:pass
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 chased	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 chased	aux
17	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 showed	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show	past	it	the hunters's damage	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent damage=Recipient
2	chase	past · perfect · passive		the wounds	tree rules
3	damage		the hunters		nom damage «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Yeah, it showed the hunters' tracks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 showed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 showed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 showed	nsubj
4	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hunters	det
6	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tracks	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 hunters	case
8	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 showed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	it	the hunters's tracks					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent track=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it showed the hunters' damage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 showed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 showed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 showed	nsubj
4	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hunters	det
6	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 damage	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 hunters	case
8	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	it	the hunters's damage					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent damage=Recipient
2	damage		the hunters						nom damage «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Yeah, it showed all the hunters' damage, plus a message warning the village to stay away

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 showed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 showed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 showed	nsubj
4	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 damage	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunters	det
7	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 damage	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 hunters	case
9	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 warning	punct
11	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	14 warning	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 message	det
13	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 warning	nsubj
14	warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 showed	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 warning	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 stay	mark
18	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 warning	xcomp
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	past	it	the hunters's damage		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent damage=Recipient
2	warn speech: warn	gerund	a message	the village		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent village=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stay away	to-infinitive	the village not said here		away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	damage		the hunters			nom damage «event transitive»: poss=agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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