Test 11 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, part 1: the b…

so father badger just wanted food for his babies, nothing else?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father badger · What happens: want · To what, where: food

This is test 11 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 badger	compound
3	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 babies	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 babies	nmod:poss
9	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wanted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nothing	punct
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 babies	appos
12	else	else	ADV	_	11 nothing	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	father badger	food				for badger's babies	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=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 right answer

yeah, he begged for meat for his kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 meat	case
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 kids	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kids	nmod:poss
9	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he					for meat; for his kids	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for meat=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

no, he wanted a new bow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bow	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bow	amod
7	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	a new bow					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bow=Theme

Option 3

yeah, he asked for a robe for his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 robe	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 robe	det
7	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he					for a robe; for his wife	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, he begged for meat for his kids and nothing more at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 meat	case
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 kids	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kids	nmod:poss
9	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 meat	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nothing	cc
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 meat	conj
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 begged	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he					for meat for his kids	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for meat=Topic

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