Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl be…

Ngl, why did the Jogi finally chop at the root?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do, chop · To what, where: Jogi

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1825 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl becomes a bamboo fiddle that cooks for a chief's son, then the Cruel Crane tricks the fish» 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	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	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 Jogi	det
6	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 chop	advmod
8	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 root	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 root	det
11	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chop	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	the Jogi					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jogi=Eventuality
2	chop	present	Ngl not said here					at the root; finally property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at root=Patient

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

He thought a Bonga was messing with him and wanted revenge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Bonga	det
4	Bonga	Bonga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 messing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 messing	aux
6	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 messing	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wanted	cc
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
11	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mess	past · progressive	a Bonga		with him = he	tree rules
3	want	past	He not said here	revenge		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He thought a Bonga was messing with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Bonga	det
4	Bonga	Bonga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 messing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 messing	aux
6	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 messing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mess	past · progressive	a Bonga					with him = he	tree rules

Option 3

He thought a Bonga was fooling him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Bonga	det
4	Bonga	Bonga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fooling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fooling	aux
6	fooling	fool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fooling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fool	past · progressive	a Bonga	him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

He thought a Bonga was messing with him all along the tank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Bonga	det
4	Bonga	Bonga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 messing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 messing	aux
6	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 messing	obl
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 tank	advmod
10	along	along	ADP	_	12 tank	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tank	det
12	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 messing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mess	past · progressive	a Bonga					with him = he; along the tank	tree rules

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