Test 9 · ★ · Jackal Tales, The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son, p…
Yo, which old pal of the jackal's dad shows up in the wood?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old pal · What happens: pal, show up · To what, where: wood
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 5 pal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 pal | nsubj |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pal | amod |
| 5 | pal | pal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dad | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jackal | det |
| 8 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 jackal | case |
| 10 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pal | nmod |
| 11 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 shows | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pal | of the jackal's dad | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | show up | present | old pal | the wood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
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 fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The owl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 owl | det |
| 2 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ 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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1164-pg3027-part30/t9/