Test 4 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther…

how did the jackal even get the heron to show him the panther's den

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: heron · What happens: get, show · To what, where: heron, den

This is test 4 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jackal	det
4	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heron	det
8	heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 show	mark
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 show	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 panther	det
13	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 den	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 panther	case
15	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support		the heron					tree rules
2	show	to-infinitive	the heron not said here	the panther's den	heron				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient den=Topic

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 heron was scared so he told him everything

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	4 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the heron					scared property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	heron	everything	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the heron begged him to let him go and gave up the lair

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	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 gave	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lair	det
13	lair	lair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the heron		him = he	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	let	to-infinitive	the heron not said here	heron		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	heron not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give up	past	the heron not said here	the lair		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lair=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the jackal held him down and he had no choice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jackal	det
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 held	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
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	3 held	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 choice	det
10	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold down	past	the jackal	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	have	past	jackal	no choice					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient

Option 4

the heron pretended to be the panther's friend and tricked the jackal into going to the wrong cave full of hungry lions

The tree, 23 words

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	3 pretended	nsubj
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	9 friend	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 friend	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 panther	det
7	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 friend	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 panther	case
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tricked	cc
11	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pretended	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jackal	det
13	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tricked	obj
14	into	into	SCONJ	_	15 going	mark
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 tricked	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 cave	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cave	det
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cave	amod
19	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl
20	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cave	amod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 lions	case
22	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lions	amod
23	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pretend	past	the heron			tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	the heron not said here	the panther's friend		tree rules
3	trick	past	the heron not said here	the jackal		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackal=Patient
4	go	gerund	the heron not said here		the wrong cave	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location

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