Test 2 · ★ · Indian tales, The Jackal and the Panther, part 29: the tig…

Mate, why was the panther proper gutted after the shoe thing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, gut · To what, where: panther

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 panther	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 panther	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 panther	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 panther	det
6	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 gutted	advmod
8	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 panther	acl
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 thing	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	compound
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gutted	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the panther					tree rules
2	gut	participle		the panther not said here			after the shoe thing	properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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

Shoes were too tight, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tight	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tight	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tight	advmod
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tight	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Shoes					bruv vocative; tight property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The shoes were rock hard and hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoes	det
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rock	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rock	cop
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 rock	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hurt	cc
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rock	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the shoes	rock				hard property	tree rules
2	hurt	infinitive	the shoes not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They gave him blisters, mate

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	blisters	blister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blisters	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	They	blisters and mate	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blister=Theme

Option 4

The shoes were rock hard and he cried for ages, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoes	det
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hard	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	obl:unmarked
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ages	case
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shoes					rock obl:unmarked; mate vocative; hard property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	he				for ages		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for age=Recipient

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