Test 6 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

«chuck the monkey my crisps, he's starving look» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, monkey, look · What happens: chuck, starve, be · To what, where: crisps, monkey, look

This is test 6 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» of the biology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 chuck	punct
2	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chuck	obj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 crisps	nmod:poss
6	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chuck	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 starving	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 starving	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 starving	aux
10	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 chuck	advcl
11	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 starving	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	chuck in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my crisps	the monkey		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Destination crisp=Theme
2	starve in a quote	present · progressive	monkey	look			tree rules
3	is	present	look			right 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 right answer

No, crisps are full of salt and fat and make monkeys ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 salt	case
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fat	cc
9	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 salt	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 make	cc
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 full	conj
12	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 make	obj
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	crisps					of salt and fat; full property	tree rules
2	make	present	crisps not said here	monkeys				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset monkey=Product

Option 2

Yes, monkeys love crisps and need the salt to stay healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 love	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 need	cc
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 love	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 salt	det
9	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stay	mark
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 need	xcomp
12	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	present	monkeys	crisps		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crisp=Stimulus
2	need	present	monkeys not said here	the salt		tree rules
3	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the salt not said here		healthy property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only if you give him a drink as well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 give	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drink	det
7	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	4 give	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	you	a drink	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drink=Theme

Option 4

Yes, but only salty ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 ones	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 ones	advmod
5	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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