Test 12 · ★ · Roman Tales, Androclus and the Lion: a runaway slave befri…

Did the lion get sent back to the wild, bruh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: send back · To what, where: lion, wild

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 351 «Roman Tales, Androclus and the Lion: a runaway slave befriends a lion and wins his freedom in Rome» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj:pass
4	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wild	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wild	det
9	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
11	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 sent	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send back	past · passive · do-support		the lion		the wild			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to wild=Destination

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

Yeah, the lion was sent back to the wild forest where he was first found by Androclus

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux:pass
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
10	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forest	compound
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 found	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	aux:pass
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 found	advmod
16	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 forest	acl:relcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 Androclus	case
18	Androclus	Androclus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send back	past · passive		the lion		the wild forest			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to forest=Destination
2	find	past · passive	Androclus	lion				first property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, Androclus kept him as his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Androclus	Androclus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Androclus	him = he				as Androclus's own	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Nah, the lion was sold to a rich senator who kept him in a cage in Rome

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sold	aux:pass
6	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 senator	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 senator	det
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 senator	amod
10	senator	senator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 senator	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kept	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 cage	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cage	det
16	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Rome	case
18	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · passive		the lion	a rich senator	Rome			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to senator=Recipient
2	keep	past	a rich senator	lion		a cage			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cage=Location

Option 4

Yeah, they sent him to the wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wild	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wild	det
8	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	they	him = he		the wild			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to wild=Destination

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