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

lmao the bear was like hold this knife

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lmao like · What happens: lmao, be, hold · To what, where: bear, knife

This is test 6 · ★ 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	lmao	lmao	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lmao	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	cop
5	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hold	nsubj
6	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lmao	infinitive		the bear		tree rules
2	is	past			like property	tree rules
3	hold	present	lmao like	this knife		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme

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 right answer

the avenger said he gave back only a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 avenger	det
2	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 knife	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knife	det
9	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the avenger						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give back	past	avenger	a knife					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme

Option 2

the avenger said he gave back only a knife and nothing else from the hut

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 avenger	det
2	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 knife	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knife	det
9	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nothing	cc
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 knife	conj
12	else	else	ADV	_	11 nothing	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 hut	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hut	det
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the avenger						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give back	past	avenger	a knife		the hut			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme

Option 3

the avenger said he gave back nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 avenger	det
2	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the avenger						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give back	past	avenger	nothing					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the bear said he was giving back the meat, the knife, and the entire badger's dwelling

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 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 giving	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 giving	aux
6	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 giving	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 meat	det
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giving	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knife	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 knife	det
12	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meat	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dwelling	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dwelling	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 badger	det
16	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 badger	amod
17	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dwelling	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 badger	case
19	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the bear						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give back	past · progressive	bear	the meat and the knife					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme

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