Test 1 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bea…

yo did u see how the bear cub kicked the meat in the badgers hut lol

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: yo, bear cub · What happens: see, kick, hut · To what, where: meat

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1269 «Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bear secretly feeds the hungry badgers, and a magic avenger frightens the bears away» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 kicked	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cub	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cub	compound
8	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kicked	nsubj
9	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meat	det
11	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kicked	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 badgers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 badgers	det
14	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kicked	obl
15	hut	hut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kicked	conj
16	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 see	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	yo			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	kick	past	the bear cub	the meat	in the badgers	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Patient in badger=Location
3	hut	present	the bear cub not said here			tree rules

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 badger kicked it himself at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 badger	det
2	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	nsubj
3	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kicked	obj
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 kicked	obl:unmarked
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	the badger	it			night	badger obl:unmarked	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

the ugly cub did it sneakily while his dad wasnt looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cub	det
2	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cub	amod
3	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	sneakily	sneakily	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 wasnt	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dad	nmod:poss
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wasnt	compound
10	wasnt	wasnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl:unmarked
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 wasnt	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the ugly cub	it				dad wasnt obl:unmarked; sneakily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	look	gerund	dad wasnt not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

the bear cub did it loudly with his brothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cub	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cub	compound
3	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 brothers	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brothers	nmod:poss
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the bear cub	it				with cub's brothers; loudly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

the cub did it in front of his whole family and nobody said a word about it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cub	det
2	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 family	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 family	nmod:poss
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 family	amod
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 front	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 word	det
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the cub	it		front of cub's whole family			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	nobody	a word				about word	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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