Test 12 · ★ · Indian Myths, The Boy and the Bear Chief, part 24: the chi…

Who cared most about keeping his little sis safe?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: care, keep · To what, where: little sis

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 cared	nsubj
2	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 cared	advmod
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 keeping	mark
5	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cared	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sis	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sis	amod
8	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeping	obj
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keeping	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	past							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	keep	gerund		his little sis				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sis=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

The youngest brother, who promised his mother he would stay home with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 promised	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 promised	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 promised	nsubj
6	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 promised	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stay	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stay	aux
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promised	ccomp
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 stay	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the youngest brother		brother's mother				vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay	would	brother					with her = she; home property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The youngest brother, who stayed home with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stayed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stayed	nsubj
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the youngest brother					with her = she; home property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The chief, who wanted to keep her safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the chief						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the chief not said here	chief				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

The youngest brother, who stayed home with his little sister all winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stayed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stayed	nsubj
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 sister	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sister	nmod:poss
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sister	amod
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 winter	det
13	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the youngest brother				winter	with brother's little sister; home property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with sister=Location

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