Test 4 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, part 1: the b…

bro, the bear threw the little badgers around like sacks, didn't he?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro, he · What happens: throw, not do · To what, where: little badgers

This is test 4 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	conj
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 badgers	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 badgers	amod
8	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 threw	obj
9	around	around	ADV	_	5 threw	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 sacks	case
11	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 threw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	conj
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 did	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	bro and the bear	the little badgers				like sacks; around property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Theme
2	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

yes, all of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 all	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 all	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yep, he tossed them by pairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 tossed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tossed	nsubj
4	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tossed	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 pairs	case
7	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	he	them = they				by pairs	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme by pair=Destination

Option 3

yeah, he dragged them outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dragged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	nsubj
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	obj
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 dragged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	he	them = they				outside property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

yep, he threw them one by one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 threw	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination one=Theme

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