Test 4 · ★ · Indian tales, The Jackal and the Panther, part 29: the tig…

Yeah, but how did they soften them, like, with what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: soften · To what, where: them

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 soften	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soften	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 soften	cc
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 soften	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 soften	aux
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 soften	nsubj
7	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 soften	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	7 soften	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 soften	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 soften	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soften	past · do-support	they	them = they					tree rules

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

they used the lake

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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lake	det
4	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	they	the lake					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

water from the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 spring	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spring	det
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 water	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

from the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the rain, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rain	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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