Test 2 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, part 1: the b…

wait, so why did mom badger put a fur rug down for that bear?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mom badger · What happens: wait, put · To what, where: fur rug

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 put	advmod
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 put	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 put	aux
6	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 badger	compound
7	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	nsubj
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rug	det
10	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rug	compound
11	rug	rug	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
12	down	down	ADV	_	8 put	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 bear	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 bear	det
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past · do-support	mom badger	a fur rug				for that bear; down property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rug=Goal

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

cuz she wanted him to feel comfy and welcome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 feel	mark
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
7	comfy	comfy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 welcome	cc
9	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 comfy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	cuz	him = he					tree rules
2	feel not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here					comfy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

cuz it was cold outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cold	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	ccomp
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 cuz	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here					outside property	tree rules
2	is	past	it					cold property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cuz she wanted to be polite to the guest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 polite	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 polite	cop
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wanted	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 guest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guest	det
9	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 polite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	cuz						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	cuz not said here					to the guest; polite property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cuz she didn't want him sitting on the bare dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	obj
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 want	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 dirt	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dirt	det
10	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dirt	amod
11	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	cuz	him = he					tree rules
2	sit not said to happen	gerund	him = he not said here			the bare dirt			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on dirt=Location

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