Test 4 · ★ · Indian Myths, The Boy and the Bear Chief, part 24: the chi…

Did the snow-shoes really talk back to him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: snow shoes · What happens: do, talk back · To what, where: him

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoes	det
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoes	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snow	punct
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 talk	advmod
7	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 talk	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talk	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk back	present	the snow shoes		him = he				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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, they chirped they'd race the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chirped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chirped	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chirped	nsubj
4	chirped	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 race	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 race	aux
7	race	race	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chirped	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 race	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chirp	past	they						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	race	would	they	the snow					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Agent

Option 2

Yep, they sang that they'd stay on his feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 stay	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stay	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stay	aux
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sang	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stay	would	they			his feet			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Location

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

Yeah, they sang they'd run like the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 run	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 run	aux
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sang	ccomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 wind	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	run	would	they					like the wind	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, they sang they'd run like the wind and never stop for him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 run	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 run	aux
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sang	xcomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 wind	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 run	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stop	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 stop	advmod
13	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 run	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	run	would	they	like the wind	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not stop	infinitive	they not said here	for him = he	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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