Test 2 · ★ · Indian Myths, The Boy and the Bear Chief, part 24: the chi…

Wait, why did Redmouth go crazy barking at that tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Redmouth · What happens: wait, go, bark

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	Redmouth	Redmouth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
7	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
8	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 go	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 barking	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · do-support	Redmouth	crazy property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bark	gerund	Redmouth not said here	at that tree	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at tree=Stimulus

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

Cause he was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 bored	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bored	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he thought the folks were under it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 thought	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 folks	det
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	obj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 under	cop
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 folks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he	the folks		it			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot folk=Theme

Option 3

Cause he smelled a bear hiding inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smelled	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smelled	nsubj
3	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bear	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smelled	obj
6	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bear	acl
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	6 hiding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	Cause	a bear					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus
2	hide	gerund	a bear not said here					inside property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He smelled a bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smelled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	He	a bear					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus

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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