Test 1 · ★ · Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the h…

yo, did the hare really trick Big Lion into a ditch or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, trick · To what, where: hare, Big Lion, ditch

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1670 «Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the hare tricks the lion, then the hyaenas» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hare	det
5	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 trick	advmod
7	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Lion	compound
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 trick	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 ditch	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ditch	det
12	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ditch	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the hare					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Eventuality
2	trick	present		Big Lion				into a ditch result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lion=Patient into ditch=Result

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

No, the lion just fell in by accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 fell	advmod
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 fell	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 accident	case
9	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in	past	the lion					by accident	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by accident=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he played him, pretending the lion was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pretending	punct
7	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 played	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lion	det
9	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dead	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pretending	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	past	he	him = he		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	pretend	gerund	he not said here			tree rules
3	is	past	the lion		dead property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he tricked the hyaenas into the pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hyaenas	det
6	hyaenas	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tricked	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 pot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pot	det
9	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	the hyaenas				into the pot result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hyaena=Patient into pot=Result

Option 4

Yeah, he played him by pretending the lion was dead and then tied him to the stakes in the hut

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 pretending	mark
7	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 played	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lion	det
9	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dead	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pretending	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tied	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 tied	advmod
14	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tied	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 stakes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stakes	det
18	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tied	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hut	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hut	det
21	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	he	him = he				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	pretend	gerund	he not said here					tree rules
3	is	past	the lion				dead property	tree rules
4	tie	past	he not said here	lion	the hut	then	to the stakes	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to stake=Co-Patient

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