Test 4 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…

yo, what did the mice do when the sus eyes showed up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mice, sus eyes · What happens: do, show up

This is test 4 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
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 mice	det
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 showed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eyes	det
10	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eyes	compound
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 showed	nsubj
12	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 showed	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the mice	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	show up	past	the sus eyes	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

they bounced off into the dark

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 bounced	nsubj
2	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 bounced	compound:prt
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bounced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce off	past	they			the dark			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into dark=Destination

Option 2

they hopped off quietly into the dark, leaving the feast behind them

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 hopped	nsubj
2	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 hopped	compound:prt
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 hopped	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hopped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leaving	punct
9	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hopped	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feast	det
11	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaving	obj
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop off	past	they			the dark		quietly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into dark=Destination
2	leave	gerund	they not said here	the feast				behind them = they	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent feast=Theme behind they=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

they dashed out of the skull and scattered in all directions across the grass

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 dashed	nsubj
2	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 skull	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 skull	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skull	det
6	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dashed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 scattered	cc
8	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dashed	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 directions	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 directions	det
11	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scattered	obl
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 grass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 directions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dash	past	they			the skull			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out skull=Trajectory
2	scatter	participle	they not said here			all directions across the grass			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in direction=Destination

Option 4

they hid behind the bones

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 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 bones	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bones	det
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	they			the bones			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind bone=Location

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