Test 2 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bea…

bro so why was the baby bear always getting dissed

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, dis · To what, where: baby bear

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	10 dissed	advmod
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bear	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bear	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bear	compound
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dissed	nsubj:pass
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 dissed	advmod
9	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 dissed	aux:pass
10	dissed	dis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 bro	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the baby bear					tree rules
2	dis	gerund · passive		the baby bear				always 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

cuz he never shared his food with anyone in the whole village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shared	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shared	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 shared	advmod
4	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shared	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 shared	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 village	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 village	amod
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not share	past	cuz	cuz's food		the whole village		with anyone	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cuz his fur was dry and dingy like kinky wool and his brothers laughed at him all day

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 fur	nmod:poss
3	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dry	cop
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dingy	cc
7	dingy	dingy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dry	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 wool	case
9	kinky	kinky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wool	amod
10	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dingy	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laughed	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brothers	nmod:poss
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 laughed	nsubj
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dry	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laughed	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laughed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is	past	his fur		dry property	tree rules
3	be		his fur not said here		like kinky wool	tree rules
4	laugh	past	his brothers	day	at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cuz his fur was dry and dingy like kinky wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 fur	nmod:poss
3	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dry	cop
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dingy	cc
7	dingy	dingy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dry	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 wool	case
9	kinky	kinky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wool	amod
10	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cuz	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here	like kinky wool	tree rules
2	is	past	his fur	dry property	tree rules
3	be		his fur not said here		tree rules

Option 4

cuz his fur was bright and shiny like gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 fur	nmod:poss
3	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bright	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	cop
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shiny	cc
7	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bright	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 gold	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bright	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	is	past	his fur	like gold; bright property	tree rules
3	be		his fur not said here		tree rules

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