Test 9 · ★ · Indian Tales, The Younger Son of the Jackal, part 31: the…

so the jackal ran off right when he saw the eyes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jackal · What happens: run off, see · To what, where: eyes

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jackal	det
3	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	right	right	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eyes	det
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the jackal					right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	jackal	the eyes					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus

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

yup, he ran off later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	he					yup vocative; late property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yup, he dipped out fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dipped	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dipped	nsubj
4	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 dipped	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dipped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip out	past	he					yup vocative; fast, out property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yup, he dipped out fast and never came back to the field again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dipped	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dipped	nsubj
4	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 dipped	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dipped	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 came	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dipped	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 field	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 field	det
13	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
14	again	again	ADV	_	9 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip out	past	he					yup vocative; fast, out property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come back	past	he not said here			the field	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location

Option 4

no, he stayed a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he				while		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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