Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives t…

Real talk, why couldn't the jackal get it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jackal · What happens: not get · To what, where: talk

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 get	advmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 get	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jackal	det
8	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	the jackal	talk					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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

too tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 tired	advmod
2	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

it was too busy then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 busy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 busy	advmod
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 busy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it				then	busy property	tree rules

Option 3

no ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 ears	det
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it went in one ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ear	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ear	nummod
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it			one ear			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ear=Location

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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