Test 5 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther…
lol the jackal copying the heron's answers was dead clever, no cap
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jackal, heron · What happens: copy, be, answer · To what, where: answers
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 11 clever | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jackal | det |
| 3 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clever | nsubj |
| 4 | copying | copy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 jackal | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heron | det |
| 6 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 heron | case |
| 8 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 copying | obj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 clever | cop |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clever | amod |
| 11 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cap | punct |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 cap | det |
| 14 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clever | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | gerund | the jackal not said here | the heron's answers | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the jackal | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer | the heron | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 copied the heron
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 copied | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 copied | nsubj |
| 3 | copied | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heron | det |
| 5 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 copied | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | past | he | the heron | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heron=Theme |
Option 2
nah he made up his own answers and it still worked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 made | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 answers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answers | amod |
| 7 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 worked | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 worked | nsubj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 worked | advmod |
| 11 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | he | his own answers | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme answer=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | work | past | it | still | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | answer | his = he | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
yeah he copied the heron's answers and got it right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 copied | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 copied | nsubj |
| 3 | copied | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heron | det |
| 5 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 heron | case |
| 7 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 copied | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 copied | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | obj |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 got | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | past | he | the heron's answers | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | he not said here | heron | right property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | answer | the heron | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah he just copied every single answer and it worked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 copied | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 copied | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 copied | advmod |
| 4 | copied | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 answer | det |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answer | amod |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 copied | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 worked | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 worked | nsubj |
| 10 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 copied | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | past | he | every single answer | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | past | answer | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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