Test 2 · ★ · Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monk…

Bro, the merchant ran around all night looking for him, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchant · What happens: run, look

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 ran	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the merchant				night	Bro vocative	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	the merchant not said here					for merchant	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he never even slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 slept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slept	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 slept	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 slept	advmod
6	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	participle	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yep, all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 night	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, he rested by the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 rested	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rested	nsubj
4	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 well	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 well	det
7	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	past	he					by the well	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent by well=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he looked everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	he					everywhere property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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