Test 11 · ★ · Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Friendship: three frien…

did the narrator get scared of the wolf or the jackal at night?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: get

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 831 «Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Friendship: three friends swear to be brothers and sister for life, and a secret love is confessed» 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 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 narrator	det
3	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wolf	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolf	det
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 jackal	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jackal	det
11	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wolf	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jackal	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the narrator					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yeah, the jackal, he hid under the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 jackal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jackal	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jackal	det
4	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hid	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jackal	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hid	nsubj
7	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bed	det
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the jackal			the bed			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, his mom sat by them, so no fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mom	nmod:poss
4	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fear	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 fear	advmod
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 fear	det
11	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	his mom					by them = they	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by they=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, his mom sat by them, so no fear, and he slept right next to the wolf skins

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mom	nmod:poss
4	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fear	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 fear	advmod
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 fear	det
11	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 slept	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 slept	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 slept	nsubj
15	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
16	right	right	ADV	_	17 next	advmod
17	next	next	ADV	_	15 slept	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 skins	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 skins	det
20	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 skins	compound
21	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	his mom					by them = they	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by they=Location
2	sleep	past	he					to the wolf skins; next property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, he was really scared of the jackal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 jackal	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jackal	det
9	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the jackal; scared property	tree rules

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