Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Pero…

Why'd the snake nearly chokey the raven, was it hangry?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake, chokey · What happens: chokey, be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1321 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Peronnik saves Nantes with the magic bowl, then a king's son wins a bundle and a giant's bargain» 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	6 chokey	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 chokey	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chokey	nsubj
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 chokey	advmod
6	chokey	chokey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hangry	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 raven	det
8	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chokey	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chokey	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hangry	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hangry	nsubj
12	hangry	hangry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 hangry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chokey	would	the snake					nearly property	tree rules
2	is	past	chokey					hangry property	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 · ✓ the right answer

It was trying to strangle him

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	3 trying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 strangle	mark
5	strangle	strangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strangle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	strangle not said to happen	to-infinitive		him = he					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because the snake wanted to coil around the raven and drag him down to its den under the earth

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 wanted	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snake	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 coil	mark
6	coil	coil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	around	around	ADP	_	9 raven	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 raven	det
9	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coil	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drag	cc
11	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 coil	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drag	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 drag	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 den	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 den	nmod:poss
16	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drag	obl
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 earth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 earth	det
19	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 den	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	the snake			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	coil not said to happen	to-infinitive	the snake not said here		the raven	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around raven=Destination
3	drag down	infinitive	the snake not said here	snake	raven's den under the earth	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to den=Destination

Option 3

It wanted to eat the raven

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 raven	det
6	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive		the raven					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Patient

Option 4

It was trying to strangle him because the raven had stolen its eggs from the nest

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	3 trying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 strangle	mark
5	strangle	strangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strangle	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 stolen	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 raven	det
9	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stolen	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stolen	aux
11	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 trying	advcl
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eggs	nmod:poss
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stolen	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 nest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nest	det
16	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	It			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	strangle not said to happen	to-infinitive		him = he		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	steal	past · perfect · passive		the raven	the nest	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary egg=Theme

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