Test 6 · ★ · Indian tales, The Jackal and the Panther, part 29: the tig…

So the panther was like, they've all got no tails, I'm done?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: panther · What happens: get, do · To what, where: tails, I

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	10 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 panther	det
3	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	cop
5	like	like	INTJ	_	3 panther	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 panther	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
8	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 got	aux
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
10	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 done	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 tails	det
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 done	nsubj
15	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux:pass
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · perfect	the panther	no tails				all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus
2	do	present · passive		I					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he gave up hunting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he	hunting					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Source

Option 2

Nah, he hunted them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hunted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunted	nsubj
4	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunted	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hunted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	he	them = they					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he started hunting the shepherd's sheep instead, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 started	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 started	nsubj
4	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 started	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shepherd	det
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sheep	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 shepherd	case
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunting	obj
10	instead	instead	ADV	_	12 mate	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 instead	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	he						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hunt	gerund	he not said here	the shepherd's sheep				instead mate	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he gave up hunting the jackals for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 gave	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jackals	det
8	jackals	jackal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hunting	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 good	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he						tree rules
2	hunt	gerund	he not said here	the jackals				for good	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent jackal=Location for good=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1163-pg3027-part29/t6/