Test 7 · ★ · South American Tales, The Puma and the Monkey, part 62: th…

So the shepherd whacked the stag, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: shepherd · What happens: whack · To what, where: stag

This is test 7 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 whacked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whacked	nsubj
4	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stag	det
6	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whacked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 whacked	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	4 whacked	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 whacked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past	the shepherd	the stag					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Patient

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

Yeah, he hit him twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	him = he				twice property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 2

Nope, the stag escaped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 escaped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stag	det
4	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 escaped	nsubj
5	escaped	escape	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	escape	past	the stag						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he hit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, one hit killed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 killed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 killed	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hit	nummod
4	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 killed	nsubj
5	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	one hit	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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