Test 4 · ★ · Indian Tales, The Younger Son of the Jackal, part 31: the…

fam, why was the sheep acting all dramatic with her tail?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: act · To what, where: dramatic

This is test 4 · ★ 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 acting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fam	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 acting	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 acting	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 acting	nsubj
7	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 dramatic	det
9	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 acting	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 tail	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tail	nmod:poss
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 acting	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 acting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	past · progressive	fam	all dramatic				with fam's tail	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent dramatic=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 · ← Mova's choice

to trick the jackal away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jackal	det
4	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trick	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 trick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick away	to-infinitive		the jackal				away property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackal=Patient

Option 2

to pretend she was crying for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 pretend	mark
2	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 pretend	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 help	case
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	she					for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

Option 3

to fake being sad for the greyhound so he would come help her quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fake	mark
2	fake	fake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fake	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 greyhound	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 greyhound	det
7	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sad	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 come	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fake	advcl
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	xcomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 help	obj
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 help	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	fake	to-infinitive				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund			for the greyhound; sad property	tree rules
3	come	would	greyhound			tree rules
4	help	infinitive	greyhound not said here	her = she	quickly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to fake being sad for the greyhound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fake	mark
2	fake	fake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sad	csubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 greyhound	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 greyhound	det
7	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	to-infinitive							vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund						for the greyhound; sad property	tree rules

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