Test 12 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bea…

did the cowards come out to fight

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cowards · What happens: come out, fight

This is test 12 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cowards	det
3	cowards	coward	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fight	mark
7	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past · do-support	the cowards					out property	tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	the cowards not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «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

no they stayed in the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 stayed	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they			the woods			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yes they came out to fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 came	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fight	mark
6	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	they					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	fight	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yes they fought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 fought	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fought	nsubj
3	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	they						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no they sulked inside their wigwams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 sulked	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sulked	nsubj
3	sulked	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 wigwams	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wigwams	nmod:poss
6	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sulked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	past	they			their wigwams			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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