Test 12 · ★ · Jackal Tales, The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son, p…

Who carried all the butter jars to the window, like a legend?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: butter · What happens: carry, jar

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1164 «Jackal Tales, The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son, part 30: the jackal cheats the hyena, the lion, and the hedgehog» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 butter	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 butter	det
5	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jars	nsubj
6	jars	jar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jars	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 legend	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 legend	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 legend	det
13	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past							tree rules
2	jar	present	all butter					to the window	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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

The jackal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jackal	det
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The hedgehog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hedgehog	det
2	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The farmer's dog who came running up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 farmer	case
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 running	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the farmer's dog						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run up	gerund	the farmer's dog not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The porcupine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 porcupine	det
2	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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