Test 2 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…

ngl, how did the wolves feel about that fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, wolves · What happens: do, feel

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1272 «Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast until fiery eyes creep into their skull» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolves	det
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feel	nsubj
7	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	present	the wolves					about that fire	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about fire=Location

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

they thought the fire was a trick and wanted to sneak in close to the feast

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trick	det
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sneak	mark
11	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 close	case
13	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sneak	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 feast	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feast	det
16	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the fire	a trick		tree rules
3	want	past	they not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	sneak not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here		close	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in close=Trajectory

Option 2

they wanted to join in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 join	mark
4	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 join	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	join in not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

they stayed far off, howling because they feared the fire at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 off	advmod
4	off	off	ADV	_	2 stayed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 howling	punct
6	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stayed	advcl
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 feared	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feared	nsubj
9	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feared	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they			off property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	howl	gerund	they not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fear	past	they	the fire	night		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

too scared to come close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 scared	advmod
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 come	mark
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 scared	xcomp
5	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	to-infinitive						close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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