Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Moti the Fool, part 25: Moti rides a s…

Ha, Moti hit the tiger with his staff and it was well battered?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Moti · What happens: hit, batter · To what, where: tiger

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1300 «Indian Fairy Tales, Moti the Fool, part 25: Moti rides a stolen-looking horse, catches a tiger, and chooses a pony» 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	4 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ha	punct
3	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tiger	det
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 staff	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 staff	nmod:poss
9	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 battered	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 battered	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 battered	aux:pass
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 battered	advmod
14	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hit	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	Moti	the tiger				with Moti's staff	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tiger=Patient with staff=Instrument
2	batter	past · passive		tiger				well property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was half stunned and could barely stand up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 stunned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stunned	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stunned	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stunned	aux:pass
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 stunned	advmod
6	stunned	stun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stand	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stand	aux
9	barely	barely	ADV	_	10 stand	advmod
10	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stunned	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 stand	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stun	past · passive		it				half property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	stand up	could						barely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, it was bleeding, and then it fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bleeding	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bleeding	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bleeding	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bleeding	aux
5	bleeding	bleed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fled	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fled	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 fled	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fled	nsubj
10	fled	flee	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	bleed	past · progressive	it						vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	flee	past	it				then		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, it was dead and lying in the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lying	cc
7	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dead	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 grass	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grass	det
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					dead property	tree rules
2	lie	gerund				the grass			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he just shooed it away with his staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 shooed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shooed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 shooed	advmod
5	shooed	shoo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shooed	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 shooed	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 staff	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 staff	nmod:poss
10	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shooed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoo away	past	he	it				with his staff; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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