Test 5 · ★ · Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monk…

The elephant didn't even see the tortoise the whole time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elephant · What happens: not see · To what, where: tortoise

This is test 5 · ★ 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 elephant	det
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tortoise	det
8	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	the elephant	the tortoise			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tortoise=Stimulus

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

Nope, he thought the whale was his friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 whale	det
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 friend	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 friend	cop
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the whale	whale's friend					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he spotted the tortoise right away but decided he was too small to be worth bothering about at all

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 spotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spotted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spotted	nsubj
4	spotted	spot	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 spotted	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	4 spotted	advmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 decided	cc
10	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spotted	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 small	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 small	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 small	advmod
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 decided	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	17 worth	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 worth	cop
17	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 small	conj
18	bothering	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 worth	xcomp
19	about	about	ADV	_	18 bothering	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 bothering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spot	past	he	the tortoise		away property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent tortoise=Destination
2	decide	past	he not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	he			small property	tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	he not said here			worth property	tree rules
5	bother	gerund	he not said here		all	about property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, he was so busy pulling that he never once looked around to see who was really on the other end of the rope

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 busy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 busy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 busy	advmod
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 busy	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 looked	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 looked	advmod
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 looked	advmod
12	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 pulling	advcl
13	around	around	ADV	_	7 pulling	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pulling	advcl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 end	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 end	cop
18	really	really	ADV	_	22 end	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 end	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 end	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 end	amod
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 rope	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rope	det
25	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		busy property	tree rules
2	pull	gerund	he not said here		around property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not look around	participle	he		once property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past		on the other end	of the rope	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, he thought the whale was the only foe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 whale	det
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foe	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 foe	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 foe	det
9	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 foe	amod
10	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the whale	the only foe					tree rules

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