Test 6 · ★ · Roman Tales, Androclus and the Lion: a runaway slave befri…

Did Androclus just kinda hang with a lion?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Androclus · What happens: hang

This is test 6 · ★ 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 hang	aux
2	Androclus	Androclus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hang	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 hang	advmod
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 hang	advmod
5	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 lion	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lion	det
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hang	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past · do-support	Androclus					with a lion; kinda property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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

Yeah, they were besties in the cave for months until the men found them and dragged him out

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	14 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 besties	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 besties	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 besties	cop
5	besties	besty	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 found	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cave	det
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 besties	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 months	case
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cave	nmod
11	until	until	ADP	_	13 men	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dragged	cc
17	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dragged	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	17 dragged	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	they	besties	the cave for months	tree rules
2	find	past	besties	men = man		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	drag out	past	besties not said here	him = he		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he fought the lion there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fought	obj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	he	the lion		there			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Co-Agent

Option 3

Yeah, they chilled in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chilled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chilled	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chilled	nsubj
4	chilled	chill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chilled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past	they			the forest			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were besties in the cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 besties	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 besties	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 besties	cop
5	besties	besty	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cave	det
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 besties	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	besties		the cave			tree rules

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