Test 10 · ★ · Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monk…

The whale just gave the tortoise a bone like that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whale · What happens: give · To what, where: tortoise

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1258 «Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey, part 59: the clever tortoise tricks an elephant and a whale into a tug-of-war» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 whale	det
2	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tortoise	det
6	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bone	det
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 bone	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the whale	the tortoise					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Recipient bone=Theme

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

Yeah, he handed it over without any fuss, since the tortoise had asked so politely for it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 handed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 handed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 handed	nsubj
4	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 handed	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	4 handed	compound:prt
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 fuss	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 fuss	det
9	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	15 asked	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tortoise	det
13	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	aux
15	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 handed	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 politely	advmod
17	politely	politely	ADV	_	15 asked	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand over	past	he	it				without any fuss	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past · perfect · passive		the tortoise				for fuss; politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 2

Nah, the whale refused at first, but then he gave it up after the tortoise pleaded with him

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 whale	det
4	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refused	nsubj
5	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 refused	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 gave	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 refused	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 gave	compound:prt
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 pleaded	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tortoise	det
17	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pleaded	nsubj
18	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pleaded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the whale				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	give up	past	whale	it	then		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
3	plead speech: request	past	the tortoise			with whale	tree rules

Option 3

Yep, he gave it willingly enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	obj
6	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	it				enough, willingly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he handed it over no problem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 handed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 handed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 handed	nsubj
4	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 handed	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 problem	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 problem	det
8	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	past	he	it		no problem			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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