Test 10 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, part 1: the b…
ok real talk, what were the badgers' walls made of?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ok real talk · What happens: be, make · To what, where: walls
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1268 «Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, part 1: the bear begs for meat, then drives the badger family out of their home» 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 | ok | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 talk | amod |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 talk | amod |
| 3 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walls | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 walls | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walls | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 badgers | det |
| 8 | badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 walls | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 badgers | case |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 talk | conj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 walls | acl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 made | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ok real talk and the badgers's walls | the badgers's walls | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the badgers's walls not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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
rocks and straw packed tight with mud and clay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 straw | cc |
| 3 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 rocks | conj |
| 4 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 rocks | acl |
| 5 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 4 packed | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mud | case |
| 7 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 packed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clay | cc |
| 9 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mud | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | participle | rocks and straw not said here | with mud and clay; tight property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mud=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
rocks and straw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 straw | cc |
| 3 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 rocks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
piled stones, mud, and dry straw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stones | amod |
| 2 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mud | punct |
| 4 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stones | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 straw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 straw | cc |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 straw | amod |
| 8 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stones | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile | participle | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
clay and hides
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hides | cc |
| 3 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 clay | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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