Test 6 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…

Which is TRUE about this part of the story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 82 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 story	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about this part of the story; true property	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

The Hedgehog is eaten by Jaguar at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hedgehog	det
2	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux:pass
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Jaguar	case
6	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · passive	Jaguar	the Hedgehog		last			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Jaguar never manages to eat either friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 manages	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 manages	advmod
3	manages	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 manages	xcomp
6	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not manage	present	Jaguar						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not eat	to-infinitive	Jaguar not said here	either friend					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

Option 3

Jaguar never manages to eat either friend, because the Hedgehog and Tortoise both escape him in the end

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 manages	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 manages	advmod
3	manages	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 manages	xcomp
6	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 escape	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 escape	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hedgehog	det
11	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 escape	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Tortoise	cc
13	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Hedgehog	conj
14	both	both	ADV	_	15 escape	advmod
15	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 manages	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 escape	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 escape	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not manage	present	Jaguar				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not eat	to-infinitive	Jaguar not said here	either friend			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
3	escape	present	the Hedgehog and Tortoise	friend	in the end	both property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial_Location

Option 4

Jaguar gets the Tortoise at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tortoise	det
4	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Jaguar	the Tortoise		last			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme at last=Asset

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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