Test 8 · ★ · Indian tales, The Jackal and the Panther, part 29: the tig…

So what's the jackal's plan for dinner, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: plan

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	7 plan	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 plan	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jackal	det
5	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 jackal	case
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 plan	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the jackal's plan			then	for dinner	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 · ✓ the right answer

buy one of the sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 buy	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sheep	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	one of the sheep					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 2

catch a tasty hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hen	det
3	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hen	amod
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	a tasty hen					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme

Option 3

buy one of the sheep from the shepherd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 buy	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sheep	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 shepherd	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shepherd	det
8	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	one of the sheep				from the shepherd	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from shepherd=Source

Option 4

buy a fat sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sheep	det
3	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sheep	amod
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	a fat sheep					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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