Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stole…

so who was the baby in the grass, fr?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: baby, grass

This is test 4 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 baby	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 baby	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 baby	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 baby	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 baby	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 baby	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the baby and fr		the grass			tree rules

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

A lost child in the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 child	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A wood-child in soft brown buckskins that some hunter had wrapped and hidden in the reeds

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 child	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wood	punct
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 buckskins	case
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 buckskins	amod
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 buckskins	amod
8	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 child	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 wrapped	nsubj:pass
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 hunter	det
11	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrapped	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wrapped	aux
13	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 buckskins	acl:relcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hidden	cc
15	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 wrapped	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 reeds	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 reeds	det
18	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	past · perfect · passive		soft brown buckskins		the reeds			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in reed=Destination
2	hide	participle							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A wood-child in buckskins, left alone in the tall grass by someone who never returned

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 child	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wood	punct
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	nsubj:pass
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 buckskins	case
6	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 child	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 grass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grass	det
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grass	amod
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 someone	case
15	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 left	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 returned	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 returned	advmod
18	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 someone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle · passive	someone	a wood child in buckskins		the tall grass		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in grass=Location
2	not return	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A wood-child in buckskins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 child	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wood	punct
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 buckskins	case
6	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 child	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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