Test 4 · ★ · Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monk…

Okay, so the tortoise was like the lil' sneaky one, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tortoise · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	12 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tortoise	det
5	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	12 one	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
9	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
11	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	12 one	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tortoise					like the lil sneaky one	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

Yeah, very wise and very patient too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wise	punct
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 wise	advmod
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 patient	cc
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 patient	advmod
7	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wise	conj
8	too	too	ADV	_	4 wise	advmod

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

Option 2

Yeah, he was quite a clever one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
5	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	quite clever one					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, total trickster, super sneaky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 trickster	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trickster	punct
3	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trickster	amod
4	trickster	trickster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sneaky	punct
6	super	super	ADV	_	7 sneaky	advmod
7	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trickster	conj

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

Option 4

Nah, he was honest and open, he just happened to win because he was small and quick

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 honest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 honest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 honest	cop
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 open	cc
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 honest	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 happened	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 happened	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 happened	advmod
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 honest	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 win	mark
13	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 happened	xcomp
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 small	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 small	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 small	cop
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 win	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 quick	cc
19	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 small	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	honest property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here		tree rules
3	happen	past	he		tree rules
4	win	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	he	small property	tree rules
6	be		he not said here		tree rules

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