Test 11 · ★ · Indian Myths, The Boy and the Bear Chief, part 24: the chi…

Whoa, did his brothers end up half bear, half boy?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whoa, brothers · What happens: do, end up · To what, where: half bear

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1223 «Indian Myths, The Boy and the Bear Chief, part 24: the chief turns the brothers half bear, and the little hunter burns 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	Whoa	Whoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Whoa	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brothers	nmod:poss
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 end	nsubj
6	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 end	compound:prt
8	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 bear	amod
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 boy	punct
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 boy	compound
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bear	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whoa						tree rules
2	end up	present	Whoa's brothers	half bear and half boy					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient bear=Result

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

Nope, they were just burnt sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 sticks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sticks	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sticks	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 sticks	advmod
6	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sticks	amod
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	burnt sticks					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, that's what he found in the ruins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ruins	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ruins	det
10	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that						tree rules
2	find	past	he			the ruins			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yep, they were bears in the old cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 bears	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bears	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bears	cop
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 cave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cave	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cave	amod
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bears	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	bears		the old cave			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, they were dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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