Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Manstin the Rabbit, part 11: Iya the c…

was Manstin's skipping along the path smart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: skipping · What happens: skip, be · To what, where: path

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1274 «Indian Fairy Tales, Manstin the Rabbit, part 11: Iya the camp-eater is slain, then Manstin trades eyes with a blind grandfather and falls into the brook» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smart	cop
2	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 smart	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Manstin	case
4	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 smart	csubj
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 path	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 path	det
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skipping	obl
8	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 smart	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	gerund				the path			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory
2	is	past	skipping					smart 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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he skipped along like he had no care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 skipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 skipped	nsubj
4	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 skipped	advmod
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 skipped	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 care	det
10	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past	he					along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	he	no care					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient

Option 2

Yes, he was quiet and sly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	cop
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sly	cc
7	sly	sly	ADV	_	5 quiet	conj

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

Option 3

Yes, he was very smart because he knew that the old man's rope would hold him up in the river

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 smart	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smart	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smart	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 smart	advmod
6	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smart	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 hold	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rope	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 man	case
15	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hold	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hold	aux
17	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 smart	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hold	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 hold	compound:prt
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			smart property	tree rules
2	know	past	he				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	hold up	would	the old man's rope	man	the river		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he ran fast with no thought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ran	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 thought	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 thought	det
8	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	he					with no thought; fast property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with thought=Material

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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