Test 2 · ★ · Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the h…

Bruv, when that boy grabs the hare's ears, what does the hare do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, ears · What happens: grab, do

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1218 «Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the hare brings fire home, the turtle goes to war for his bride» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grabs	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 grabs	mark
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabs	nsubj
6	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hare	det
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ears	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 hare	case
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 do	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hare	det
15	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grabs	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grabs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	present	that boy					Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	do	present · do-support	the hare's ears						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

Kicks the boy in the face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kicks	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kicks	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 face	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 face	det
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kicks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	present		the boy		the face			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boy=Patient in face=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cries and begs the boy to let him go right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 begs	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	1 Cries	cc
3	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begs	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begs	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 now	advmod
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	Cries		the boy		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
2	let	to-infinitive	Cries not said here	boy			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	boy not said here			now	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Struggles to get away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Struggles	struggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 get	mark
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Struggles	acl
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	to-infinitive						away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Shouts loudly for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouts	shout	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Shouts	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 help	case
4	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shouts	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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