Test 13 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bea…

so was the old badger proud of his son

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 proud	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 proud	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 badger	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 badger	amod
5	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proud	obl:unmarked
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 son	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proud	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						of badger's son; the old badger obl:unmarked; proud property	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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah he was happy to be called son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 happy	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	cop
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 called	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 called	aux:pass
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happy	advcl
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					happy property	tree rules
2	call	to-infinitive · passive	he not said here	son					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah he was delighted to be called father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 delighted	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 called	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 called	aux:pass
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 delighted	advcl
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					delighted property	tree rules
2	call	to-infinitive · passive	he not said here	father					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

Option 3

no he was sad to be called father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sad	det
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 called	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 called	aux:pass
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sad	advcl
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sad property	tree rules
2	call	to-infinitive · passive	he not said here	father					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

Option 4

no he was not delighted to be called father by a stranger from the woods

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 delighted	det
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 delighted	advmod
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 called	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 called	aux:pass
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 delighted	advcl
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 stranger	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stranger	det
12	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 woods	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woods	det
15	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stranger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	he					delighted property	tree rules
2	call	to-infinitive · passive	a stranger from the woods	father					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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