Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, par…

Mate, why did Isuro say he had to go back?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Isuro · What happens: say, have, go back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Isuro	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Isuro	tree rules
3	go back	to-infinitive	Isuro not said here	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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

dropped his cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cup	nmod:poss
3	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past		his cup					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme

Option 2

lost needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 needle	amod
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

left his needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 needle	nmod:poss
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past		his needle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

dropped his needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 needle	nmod:poss
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past		his needle					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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