Exam question 3 · Indian tales, The Jackal and the Panther, part 29: the tig…

What was the outcome of the jackal's trick upon his companions at the melon garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: jackal · What happens: be, trick · To what, where: outcome

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1163 «Indian tales, The Jackal and the Panther, part 29: the tight shoes and the greyhound in sheep's wool» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 trick	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jackal	det
7	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trick	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 jackal	case
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 companions	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 companions	nmod:poss
12	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trick	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 garden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
15	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 garden	compound
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 companions	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome				of the jackal's trick upon jackal's companions at the melon garden	tree rules
2	trick		the jackal					upon jackal's companions at the melon garden	nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent upon=obl

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 · ✓ the right answer

They fled, leaving their tails behind

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	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 leaving	punct
4	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fled	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tails	nmod:poss
6	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leaving	obj
7	behind	behind	ADV	_	4 leaving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	They						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	gerund	They not said here	their tails				behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme

Option 2

They ate the melons instead

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	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 melons	det
4	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	They	the melons				instead property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Patient

Option 3

They fled and hid in shame

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	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hid	cc
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fled	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 shame	case
6	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	They						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	past	They not said here			shame			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shame=Location

Option 4

They fled in panic, leaving their tails tied together behind

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	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 panic	case
4	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fled	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leaving	punct
6	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fled	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tails	nmod:poss
8	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leaving	obj
9	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 leaving	xcomp
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 tied	advmod
11	behind	behind	ADV	_	9 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	past	They		panic		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	gerund	They not said here	their tails			tree rules
3	tie	participle	their tails not said here			behind, together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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