Test 11 · ★ · Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monk…

Okay, so the tortoise was young but still super clever?

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

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	7 young	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 young	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tortoise	det
5	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 young	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 young	cop
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 clever	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	11 clever	advmod
10	super	super	ADV	_	11 clever	advmod
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 young	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 young	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tortoise					young property	tree rules
2	be		the tortoise not said here				still	super 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

Nah, he was actually old and wise, not young at all, just small in body and quiet in manner

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wise	cc
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 young	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 young	advmod
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 young	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 small	punct
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 small	advmod
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 body	case
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 small	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 quiet	cc
20	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 small	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 manner	case
22	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	manner	actually, old property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here			tree rules
3	not be		he not said here	all		tree rules
4	be		he not said here	body		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was young but outsmarted everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 young	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 young	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 young	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 young	cop
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 outsmarted	cc
7	outsmarted	outsmart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 young	conj
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 outsmarted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					young property	tree rules
2	outsmart	past	he not said here	everyone					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot everyone=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he was young but quite foolish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 young	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 young	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 young	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 young	cop
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 foolish	cc
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 foolish	advmod
8	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 young	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					young property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he was young but he outsmarted both the whale and the elephant and the whole forest

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 young	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 young	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 young	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 young	cop
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 outsmarted	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 outsmarted	nsubj
8	outsmarted	outsmart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 young	conj
9	both	both	CCONJ	_	11 whale	cc:preconj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 whale	det
11	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 young	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 elephant	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 elephant	det
14	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whale	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 forest	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 forest	amod
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					young property	tree rules
2	outsmart	past	he						vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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