Test 10 · ★ · African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60:…

the baker really ate the fish, didn't he, dude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baker · What happens: eat, not dude · To what, where: fish

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1259 «African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60: the tortoise tricks the fox and the stag, and the monkey cheats the barber and the villagers» 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 baker	det
2	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dude	punct
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dude	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 dude	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dude	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
12	dude	dude	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ate	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the baker	the fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	not dude	past · do-support	baker						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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the monkey stole the fish from his plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stole	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stole	nsubj
5	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stole	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 plate	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 plate	nmod:poss
10	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	the monkey	the fish		monkey's plate			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Theme from plate=Source

Option 2

nah, the monkey took the fish, and then the baker chased him all the way back to the palm tree

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chased	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 chased	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 chased	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 baker	det
12	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chased	nsubj
13	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 chased	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 way	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chased	obl:unmarked
18	back	back	ADV	_	13 chased	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 tree	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
21	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 back	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the monkey		the fish				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination
2	chase	past	the baker	fish			then	all way obl:unmarked	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he did, and then he gave the monkey a barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gave	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 gave	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 monkey	det
9	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 barrel	det
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	he	a barrel	the monkey		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient barrel=Theme

Option 4

he did, and then he gave the monkey a cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gave	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 gave	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 monkey	det
9	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cake	det
11	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	he	a cake	the monkey		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient cake=Theme

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