Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

bruh, why did the dwarfs even bother with his dancing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dwarfs, his · What happens: do, bother, dance

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarfs	det
6	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bother	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 bother	advmod
8	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 dancing	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dancing	nmod:poss
11	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bother	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	bother	present	the dwarfs	with his dancing	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	dance		his = he		nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=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

they love being entertained by any human who dares to dance

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	4 entertained	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 entertained	aux
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 entertained	aux:pass
4	entertained	entertain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 human	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 human	det
7	human	human	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entertained	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 dares	nsubj
9	dares	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 human	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dance	mark
11	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 dares	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	entertain	present · passive	any human	they	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	dare	present	any human		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dance	to-infinitive	any human not said here		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they love being entertained

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 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 entertained	cop
4	entertained	entertained	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 love	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	they						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	is not said to happen	gerund	they not said here					entertained property	tree rules

Option 3

because they were amused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 amused	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 amused	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amused	cop
4	amused	amused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					amused property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they love being entertained, and he made them laugh greatly

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	4 entertained	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 entertained	cop
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 entertained	cop
4	entertained	entertained	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entertained	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	xcomp
11	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	10 laugh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	they		entertained property	tree rules
2	make	past	he	them = they		tree rules
3	laugh	infinitive	them = they not said here		greatly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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