Test 7 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

Sus, why did the boy keep chasing that bird?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: do, keep, chase · To what, where: boy, bird

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sus	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chasing	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the boy	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	keep	present	Sus		tree rules
3	chase	gerund	Sus not said here	that bird	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

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

It was wounded and kept leading him deeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wounded	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wounded	cop
3	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wounded	conj
6	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 leading	obj
8	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 leading	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		wounded property	tree rules
2	keep	past				tree rules
3	lead	gerund		him = he	deep property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Because it was wounded and fleeing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 wounded	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wounded	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wounded	cop
4	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fleeing	cc
6	fleeing	flee	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wounded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					wounded property	tree rules
2	flee	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Because it had stolen his bow and fled into the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 stolen	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stolen	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stolen	aux
4	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bow	nmod:poss
6	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stolen	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fled	cc
8	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stolen	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect · passive		it					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bow=Theme
2	flee	past				the trees			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tree=Initial_Location

Option 4

It was tame and friendly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tame	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tame	cop
3	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 friendly	cc
5	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tame	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					tame property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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