Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives t…

Yo, what was the jackal's big trick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big trick

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1829 «Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives the wicked Raja, and the couple escape to King Dantal's palace» 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	_	9 trick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 trick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 trick	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jackal	det
6	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trick	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 jackal	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trick	amod
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the jackal's big trick					tree rules

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

hiding up high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 hiding	compound:prt
3	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 hiding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide up	gerund						high property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

running away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 running	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	gerund						away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

pretending to be scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 scared	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						scared property	tree rules

Option 4

acting really brave now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 brave	advmod
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 acting	xcomp
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 acting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	gerund					now	brave property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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