Test 9 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bea…

why did the eagle scare everyone so bad

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eagle · What happens: scare · To what, where: everyone

This is test 9 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 scare	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scare	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eagle	det
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scare	nsubj
5	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 scare	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 bad	advmod
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scare	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	past · do-support	the eagle	everyone				bad property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer

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

it swooped over camp each morning and every warrior's arrow missed it completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swooped	nsubj
2	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	4 camp	case
4	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swooped	obl
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swooped	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 missed	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 warrior	det
9	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arrow	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 warrior	case
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 missed	nsubj
12	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swooped	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 missed	obj
14	completely	completely	ADV	_	12 missed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop	past	it			camp	morning		tree rules
2	miss	past	every warrior's arrow	warrior				completely property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it attacked the horses and scared the dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 attacked	nsubj
2	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attacked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scared	cc
6	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 attacked	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dogs	det
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	past	it	the horses					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	scare	past		the dogs					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dog=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it swooped over camp and nobody could hit it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swooped	nsubj
2	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	4 camp	case
4	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swooped	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hit	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 hit	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hit	aux
8	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 swooped	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop	past	it			camp			tree rules
2	hit	could	nobody	camp					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 4

it circled above the wigwams for days and then carried off a child from the village

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 circled	nsubj
2	circled	circle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	above	above	ADP	_	5 wigwams	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wigwams	det
5	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 circled	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 days	case
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 circled	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 carried	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 carried	advmod
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 circled	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 carried	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 village	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	circle	past	it			the wigwams	day		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	carry off	past		a child		the village	then		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent child=Theme from village=Initial_Location

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