Test 8 · ★ · Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey…

Ngl, how did the lion nab the donkey in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: nab · To what, where: donkey, end

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1284 «Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey tells the shark how a greedy donkey was tricked by a hare and a lion» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 nab	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nab	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 nab	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nab	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nab	nsubj
7	nab	nab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 donkey	det
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nab	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nab	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 nab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nab	past · do-support	Ngl	the donkey			in the end		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He jumped out from behind a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 jumped	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 tree	case
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump out	past	He			a tree			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory

Option 2

He jumped out suddenly from behind a big old tree near the path and grabbed her

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 jumped	compound:prt
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	2 jumped	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	10 tree	case
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 path	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 path	det
13	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grabbed	cc
15	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump out	past	He			a big old tree		near the path; suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory
2	grab	past	He not said here	her = she					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

He lunged from a hidden hollow tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lunged	nsubj
2	lunged	lunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 tree	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
5	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
6	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lunged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lunge	past	He			a hidden hollow tree			tree rules

Option 4

He pounced out from the tall grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pounced	nsubj
2	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 pounced	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grass	amod
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pounced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pounce out	past	He			the tall grass			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from grass=Trajectory

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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