Test 12 · ★ · Indian tales, The Jackal and the Panther, part 29: the tig…
So what did the hedgehog decide to do in the end, fam?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hedgehog · What happens: decide, do · To what, where: end
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 decide | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 decide | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 decide | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hedgehog | det |
| 5 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 decide | nsubj |
| 6 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 decide | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fam | punct |
| 13 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 end | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 decide | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · do-support | the hedgehog | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent what=Co-Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the hedgehog not said here | in the end and fam | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
warn the shepherd now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shepherd | det |
| 3 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 warn | obj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 warn | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | imperative | you not said here | the shepherd | now | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shepherd=Recipient |
Option 2
run off and tell everyone about the trick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 run | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tell | cc |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 run | conj |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 trick | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trick | det |
| 8 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | everyone | about the trick | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient about trick=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
get out of the way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | imperative | you not said here | the way | tree rules |
Option 4
chase the jackal away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jackal | det |
| 3 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chase | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 chase | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase away | imperative | you not said here | the jackal | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackal=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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