Test 4 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army…

mate, did the bullocks like good bedding or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: do · To what, where: bullocks

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 630 «The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army animals talk about being scared and about fighting» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bullocks	det
5	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 bedding	case
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bedding	amod
8	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bullocks	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 bedding	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	mate	the bullocks				like good bedding	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullock=Eventuality

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

nah, they hate mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hate	nsubj
4	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	they	mud					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mud=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, they said it's better to lie in the mud than be disturbed on good bedding

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 better	expl
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 better	cop
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 lie	mark
9	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 better	csubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 mud	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mud	det
12	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lie	obl
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 disturbed	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 disturbed	aux:pass
15	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 better	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 bedding	case
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bedding	amod
18	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 disturbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present			good property	tree rules
3	lie	to-infinitive		the mud		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location
4	disturb	infinitive · passive		good bedding		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 3

yeah, they said good bedding is warmer, so they lie down in the straw every night

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bedding	amod
6	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warmer	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 warmer	cop
8	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 lie	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lie	nsubj
12	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 lie	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 straw	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 straw	det
16	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	obl
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	good bedding			warm property	tree rules
3	lie down	present	they	the straw	night	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in straw=Location

Option 4

yeah, they like good bedding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 like	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bedding	amod
6	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	they	good bedding					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bedding=Theme

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