Test 8 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, the tree, the wo…

dude, did he eat the deer before he went back for the blanket?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: eat, go back · To what, where: deer

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1265 «Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, the tree, the wolves and the blanket» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 dude	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deer	det
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	advcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 blanket	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 blanket	det
14	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · do-support	dude	the deer					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Patient
2	go back	past	dude					for the blanket	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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

Yep, he had a quick bite before going, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bite	det
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bite	amod
7	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 had	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dude	punct
11	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a quick bite					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient
2	go	gerund	he not said here					dude vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nope, he went back for the blanket first, and by the time he returned, the deer was completely gone

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 blanket	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blanket	det
8	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 went	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gone	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gone	cc
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gone	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 returned	nsubj
16	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 time	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 deer	det
19	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gone	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	cop
21	completely	completely	ADV	_	22 gone	advmod
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	he			for the blanket; first property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	return	past	he	the time not said here			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme
3	is	past	the deer		time	completely, go property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, he was too late, and the deer was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 late	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 late	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 late	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 late	advmod
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gone	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 deer	det
10	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 late	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					late property	tree rules
2	is	past	the deer					gone property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, when he got back to the stakes the wolves had already eaten the whole deer, leaving nothing

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 got	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 stakes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stakes	det
9	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolves	det
11	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eaten	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
13	already	already	ADV	_	14 eaten	advmod
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 stakes	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 deer	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 deer	amod
17	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaten	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 leaving	punct
19	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 got	advcl
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 leaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get back	past	he		to the stakes result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to stake=Result
2	eat	past · perfect · passive	the stakes not said here	the wolves		tree rules
3	leave	gerund	he not said here	nothing		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

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