Test 5 · ★ · Indian tales, The Jackal and the Panther, part 29: the tig…

Bruv, what was the trick in the melon garden?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: trick, melon garden

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 trick	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 trick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trick	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trick	det
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
9	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 garden	compound
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trick	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the trick		the melon garden		Bruv vocative	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

He glued them to the wall

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 glued	nsubj
2	glued	glue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 glued	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	past	He	them = they				to the wall	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to wall=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He tied their tails together

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 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tails	nmod:poss
4	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tied	obj
5	together	together	ADV	_	2 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	He	their tails				together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 3

He tied all their tails together to a stick

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 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tails	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tails	nmod:poss
5	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tied	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	2 tied	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	He	their tails				to a stick; together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tail=Patient to stick=Co-Patient

Option 4

He tied the tails in knots

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 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tails	det
4	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tied	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 knots	case
6	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	He	the tails		knots			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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