Test 6 · ★ · Indian Tales, The Younger Son of the Jackal, part 31: the…

wait, who actually did the hard work with the water?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: hard work

This is test 6 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 did	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 work	det
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 work	amod
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the hard work				with the water; actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=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

the sheep did, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
5	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	3 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the sheep					obviously property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the jackal did most, and the sheep only poured the water out

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	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 poured	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 poured	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sheep	det
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 poured	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 poured	advmod
10	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 poured	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	10 poured	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the jackal						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pour out	past	the sheep	the water					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 3

the jackal did, clearly

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	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	3 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the jackal					clearly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the sheep did, obviously, since she drew all of the water herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 obviously	punct
5	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drew	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 drew	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drew	nsubj
9	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 drew	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 all	nmod
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the sheep					obviously property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	draw	past	she	all					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme

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