Test 1 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stole…

yo, why'd the toad lady howl like that, lowkey creepy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toad lady · What happens: howl · To what, where: lowkey creepy

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1273 «Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stolen boy is found by his parents, and a wood-child is adopted by a chieftain» 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	_	3 why	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 howl	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lady	compound
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 howl	nsubj
8	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 howl	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 creepy	punct
12	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 creepy	amod
13	creepy	creepy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 howl	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	present	the toad lady	lowkey creepy				like that	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

She was lonely and wanted some company

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lonely	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lonely	cop
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wanted	cc
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lonely	conj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 company	det
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					lonely property	tree rules
2	want	past	She not said here	some company					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She wanted to keep the boy from leaving the marsh, so she howled like his real mother to trick him into staying

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 leaving	mark
8	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 keep	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 marsh	det
10	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaving	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 howled	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 howled	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 howled	nsubj
14	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 mother	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mother	amod
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 howled	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 trick	mark
20	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 howled	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 trick	obj
22	into	into	SCONJ	_	23 staying	mark
23	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 trick	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	She			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	the boy		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
3	leave	gerund	She not said here	the marsh		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marsh=Theme
4	howl	past	she		like boy's real mother	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	trick	to-infinitive	she not said here	boy		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	stay	gerund	she not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She howled like that because she wanted the boy to stay and never go back to his people or his lodge

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 howled	nsubj
2	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 howled	obl
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 wanted	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 howled	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stay	mark
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 go	advmod
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 howled	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 people	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 people	nmod:poss
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 go	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 lodge	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lodge	nmod:poss
21	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 people	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	howl	past	She		like that	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	past	she	the boy		tree rules
3	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the boy not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not go back	infinitive	She not said here		to boy's people or boy's lodge result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She wanted to keep the boy from leaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 leaving	mark
8	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	She		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	the boy	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
3	leave	gerund	She not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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