Test 6 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

Why did the ogre get so mad at the babies?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ogre · What happens: do, get

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ogre	det
4	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 mad	advmod
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 babies	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 babies	det
10	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mad	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	the ogre					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 all said they were Motikatika, which made him furious because he could not tell who was lying

The tree, 18 words

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	3 said	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Motikatika	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Motikatika	cop
6	Motikatika	Motikatika	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Motikatika	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	xcomp
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lying	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lying	aux
19	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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 a	past	they	Motikatika		tree rules
3	make	past	Motikatika	Motikatika	furious property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
4	not tell speech: assert	could	Motikatika			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	lie	past · progressive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

they all said they were Motikatika

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	3 said	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Motikatika	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Motikatika	cop
6	Motikatika	Motikatika	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	Motikatika					tree rules

Option 3

they all ran away from the hut

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	3 ran	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ran	advmod
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 hut	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hut	det
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	they			the hut		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hut=Trajectory

Option 4

they all started crying and wouldn't stop until the ogre gave up on all of them

The tree, 17 words

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	3 started	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 started	advmod
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 started	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stop	cc
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stop	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 stop	advmod
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 started	conj
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 gave	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ogre	det
11	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stop	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 gave	compound:prt
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 gave	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	start	past	they		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	they not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not stop	would	they not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	give up	past	the ogre	all	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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