Test 11 · ★ · Indian Tales, The Younger Son of the Jackal, part 31: the…

real talk, why did the jackal keep sneaky-stalling the hedgehog?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real talk · What happens: do, keep, stall · To what, where: jackal, hedgehog

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1165 «Indian Tales, The Younger Son of the Jackal, part 31: the jackal cheats the sheep over the grain, and the greyhound is called in» 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jackal	det
7	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stalling	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sneaky	punct
11	stalling	stall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hedgehog	det
13	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stalling	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the jackal	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackal=Eventuality
2	keep	present	real talk		tree rules
3	stall	gerund	real talk not said here	the hedgehog	vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=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 · ✓ the right answer

he never wanted to show the butter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 show	mark
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 butter	det
7	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the butter					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent butter=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he never wanted to show the butter and only wanted to stall for time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 show	mark
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 butter	det
7	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wanted	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 wanted	advmod
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stall	mark
12	stall	stall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 time	case
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not want	past	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the butter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent butter=Recipient
3	want	past	he not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	stall not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		time	vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he planned to steal the sheep's food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 planned	nsubj
2	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 steal	mark
4	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 planned	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sheep	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	past	he						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the sheep's food					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme

Option 4

he feared the hedgehog would win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hedgehog	det
4	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 win	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 win	aux
6	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	win	would	the hedgehog						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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