Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, par…

Wicked trick, what did Gudu say the custom forbade?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gudu, custom · What happens: say, forbid · To what, where: Wicked trick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 trick	amod
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trick	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 custom	det
9	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forbade	nsubj
10	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Gudu	Wicked trick					tree rules
2	forbid	past	the custom						vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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

Eating before Gudu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	before	before	ADP	_	3 Gudu	case
3	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund					before Gudu		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Isuro leaving before Gudu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Isuro	acl
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 Gudu	case
4	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	Isuro not said here			Gudu			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent before gudu=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Isuro eating till Gudu finished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 finished	nsubj
2	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Isuro	acl
3	till	till	ADP	_	4 Gudu	case
4	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eating	obl
5	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	Isuro not said here				till Gudu		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	finish	past	Isuro						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Isuro drinking water from the well until Gudu finished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 finished	nsubj
2	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Isuro	acl
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 well	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 well	det
6	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	obl
7	until	until	ADP	_	8 Gudu	case
8	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 well	nmod
9	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund	Isuro not said here	water		the well until Gudu			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	finish	past	Isuro						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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