Test 8 · ★ · Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monk…

Was the palace there when the grass guy woke up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: palace · What happens: be, wake up · To what, where: palace

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 palace	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woke	nsubj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 palace	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 woke	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guy	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guy	compound
8	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woke	nsubj
9	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 woke	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 woke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the palace		there			tree rules
2	wake up	past	the palace						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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, it was just a dream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 dream	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dream	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dream	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 dream	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dream	det
7	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, it vanished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 vanished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vanished	nsubj
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	it						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, it was real, not a dream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 real	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 real	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dream	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 dream	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dream	det
9	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 real	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					a dream obl; real property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, the gardens were gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gardens	det
4	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gone	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the gardens					gone property	tree rules

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