Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, par…
Ngl, why did Isuro keep the leaves hidden at the end?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Isuro · What happens: keep, hide · To what, where: leaves, end
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1139 «Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, part 1: Gudu cheats Isuro of food on the road» 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 keep | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | aux |
| 5 | Isuro | Isuro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 leaves | det |
| 8 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 leaves | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hidden | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · do-support | Isuro | the leaves | Ngl vocative | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | |||
| 2 | hide | participle | the leaves not said here | at the end | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location |
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
He was afraid Gudu saw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Gudu | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
He feared Gudu would guess and take the leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 feared | nsubj |
| 2 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 guess | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | aux |
| 5 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 feared | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 take | cc |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 guess | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leaves | det |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | He | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | guess | would | Gudu | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | Gudu not said here | the leaves | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He feared Gudu would guess his plan and eat the healing leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 feared | nsubj |
| 2 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 guess | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | aux |
| 5 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 feared | ccomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 plan | nmod:poss |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guess | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eat | cc |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 feared | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leaves | det |
| 11 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaves | compound |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | He | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | guess | would | Gudu | Gudu's plan | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | He not said here | the healing leaves | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | ||||
| 4 | plan | Gudu | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He feared Gudu would guess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 feared | nsubj |
| 2 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 guess | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | aux |
| 5 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 feared | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | He | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | guess | would | Gudu | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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