Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab trick…

did the jackal go down the fish's throat too?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jackal · What happens: go down · To what, where: throat

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1826 «Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab tricks the crane, then Laili jumps into a fish» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jackal	det
3	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	9 throat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throat	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 fish	case
9	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
10	too	too	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past · do-support	the jackal	the fish's throat					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient throat=Extent

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, and he came straight back up scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
7	back	back	ADV	_	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he					scared property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, and he came straight back up scared and never went near that fish again

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 scared	advmod
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 back	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 went	advmod
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
13	near	near	ADP	_	15 fish	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 fish	det
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	again	again	ADV	_	12 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not go	past	he not said here				again	near that fish	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near fish=Location

Option 3

yeah, he went all the way down and then came straight back up quite scared

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	down	down	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 back	advmod
13	back	back	ADV	_	14 up	advmod
14	up	up	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 scared	advmod
16	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 up	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he	all way				down property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	he not said here				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, and he ran off the other way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	he	the other way					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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