Test 7 · ★ · Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monk…

So the tortoise got to be the winner, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: tortoise · What happens: get, be · To what, where: winner

This is test 7 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tortoise	det
3	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 winner	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 winner	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 winner	det
8	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 winner	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the tortoise						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	to-infinitive		the winner					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

Pretty much, the whale and elephant both lost to him, and he got to make the final announcement

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	9 lost	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whale	det
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 elephant	cc
7	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whale	conj
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 lost	nsubj
9	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lost	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 got	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 announcement	det
19	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 announcement	amod
20	announcement	announcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	lose	past	the whale and elephant		elephant	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	elephant			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	make	to-infinitive	elephant not said here	the final announcement		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset announcement=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pretty much, he got the last word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	the last word					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

Option 3

Nah, the elephant won because he was bigger, but the tortoise got the last word in the end

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 won	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elephant	det
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 won	nsubj
5	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 bigger	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bigger	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bigger	cop
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 won	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tortoise	det
13	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	nsubj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 won	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 word	det
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 word	amod
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 end	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 end	det
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the elephant				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	elephant			big property	tree rules
3	get	past	the tortoise	the last word	in the end		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

Option 4

Pretty much, he was the winner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	7 winner	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 winner	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 winner	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 winner	det
7	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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