Test 6 · ★ · Jackal Tales, The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son, p…

Was the hyena well sus staying up all night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sus · What happens: be, stay up · To what, where: hyena

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hyena	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hyena	det
3	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 sus	advmod
5	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hyena	appos
6	staying	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sus	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 staying	compound:prt
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 staying	obl:unmarked
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hyena	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the hyena					tree rules
2	stay up	gerund	sus not said here				night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Afraid the jackal wins the bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Afraid	Afraid	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wins	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jackal	det
3	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wins	nsubj
4	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bell	det
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wins	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	Afraid	the bell					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Eventuality

Option 2

Scared the lion would eat him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lion	amod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	the Scared lion	him = he					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Scared the jackal would win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jackal	amod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jackal	det
3	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 win	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 win	aux
5	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would	the Scared jackal						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Scared of the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 dark	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dark	det
4	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scared	obl

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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