Test 11 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bea…
what did the chief say he wanted
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, say, want · To what, where: chief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 what | acl:relcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the chief | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | want | past | he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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
a warrior to bring the eagle down and marry one of his daughters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 warrior | det |
| 2 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 bring | mark |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 warrior | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 bring | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 marry | cc |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bring | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 marry | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 daughters | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring down | to-infinitive | the eagle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument eagle=Destination | |||||
| 2 | marry | infinitive | one of eagle's daughters | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
Option 2
a warrior to bring the eagle down so his daughters could safely go to the river
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 warrior | det |
| 2 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 bring | mark |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 warrior | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 bring | compound:prt |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 daughters | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obl |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 12 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring down | to-infinitive | a warrior not said here | the eagle | so warrior's daughters | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument eagle=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | could | a warrior | the river | safely property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a warrior to bring the eagle down for his daughters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 warrior | det |
| 2 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 bring | mark |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 bring | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 daughters | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring down | to-infinitive | a warrior | the eagle | for warrior's daughters | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument eagle=Destination |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a warrior to bring the buffalo home for his people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 warrior | det |
| 2 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 bring | mark |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 buffalo | det |
| 6 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | to-infinitive | a warrior | the buffalo | for warrior's people; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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