Test 3 · ★ · South American Tales, The Puma and the Monkey, part 62: th…

Dude, the river thing was sketchy, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1261 «South American Tales, The Puma and the Monkey, part 62: the puma tricks the stag, the stag is framed for theft, the monkey outwits the puma» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sketchy	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sketchy	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sketchy	cop
7	sketchy	sketchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sketchy	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	7 sketchy	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sketchy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dude					sketchy property	tree rules

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

Yeah, he fell in twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in	past	he					twice property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he swam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he nearly drowned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 drowned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drowned	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 drowned	advmod
5	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	he					nearly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he walked across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	across	across	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod

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

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