Test 10 · ★ · Indian tales, The Jackal and the Panther, part 29: the tig…

Ha, how did the hedgehog rumble it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hedgehog · What happens: rumble · To what, where: it

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	7 rumble	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rumble	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 rumble	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rumble	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hedgehog	det
6	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rumble	nsubj
7	rumble	rumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rumble	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 rumble	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rumble	past · do-support	the hedgehog	it					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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

He noticed the long tail

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 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tail	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tail	amod
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noticed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	He	the long tail					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus

Option 2

He saw the greyhound's paws sticking out from the skin

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 greyhound	det
4	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paws	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 greyhound	case
6	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
7	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 paws	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 sticking	compound:prt
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 skin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 skin	det
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sticking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He	the greyhound's paws					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paw=Stimulus
2	stick out	gerund	the greyhound's paws not said here			the skin			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He saw the greyhound's paws

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 greyhound	det
4	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paws	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 greyhound	case
6	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He	the greyhound's paws					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paw=Stimulus

Option 4

He saw its funny walk

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 walk	nmod:poss
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walk	amod
5	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He	its funny walk					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer walk=Stimulus
2	walk		its = it						nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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