Test 9 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big…

bruh the boys went out with no weapons, what were they thinking

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: go out, think · To what, where: weapons

This is test 9 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 weapons	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 weapons	det
8	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinking	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 thinking	obj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thinking	aux
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thinking	nsubj
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 weapons	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the boys					with no weapons	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with weapon=Co-Agent
2	think speech: other	past · progressive	boys = boy	no weapons					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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 simply were not aware of any risk

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	5 aware	nsubj
2	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 aware	advmod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 aware	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 aware	advmod
5	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 risk	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 risk	det
8	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 aware	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	They					of any risk; aware, simply property	tree rules

Option 2

They forgot the bows

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 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bows	det
4	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	They	the bows					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They weren't thinking about the danger

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 thinking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 thinking	advmod
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 danger	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 danger	det
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · progressive	They					about the danger	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about danger=Topic

Option 4

They were just bored

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 bored	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 bored	advmod
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					bored property	tree rules

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