Test 3 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther…

the heron's a proper legend for telling the dove, isn't he

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: heron, proper legend · What happens: be, tell, not be · To what, where: proper legend, dove · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1667 «Tales of Many Lands, The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther, part 56: the jackal tricks the dove, then the heron, and finds the panther's den» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heron	det
2	heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 legend	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 legend	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 legend	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legend	amod
6	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 telling	mark
8	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 legend	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dove	det
10	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 telling	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 legend	punct
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 legend	conj
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 is	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 legend	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the heron	a proper legend	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	a proper legend not said here	the dove	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dove=Recipient
3	not be	present	the heron not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 was helpful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 helpful	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helpful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 helpful	cop
4	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

nah he was a bit lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lazy	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lazy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lazy	obl:unmarked
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					a bit obl:unmarked; lazy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah he was well helpful till the jackal got him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 helpful	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 helpful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 helpful	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 helpful	advmod
5	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 got	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jackal	det
8	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 helpful	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					helpful, well property	tree rules
2	get	past	the jackal	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

nah he was just a bird who did as he was told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bird	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bird	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 bird	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	acl:relcl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 did	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a bird	tree rules
2	do	past	a bird		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past · passive		bird	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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