Test 11 · ★ · African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60:…

the kids baked cakes on rocks, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: bake

This is test 11 · ★ 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 kids	det
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cakes	nsubj
3	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cakes	amod
4	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 rocks	case
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cakes	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 yeah	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cakes	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cakes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, on rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rocks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rocks	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 rocks	case
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, flat stones, and they thought the cakes were the best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stones	punct
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stones	amod
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 yeah	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cakes	det
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 best	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 best	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 best	det
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	stones = stone						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the cakes					good property	tree rules

Option 3

yeah, flat stones, and they thought the cakes were the best, until the monkey grabbed the prettiest girl from the crowd

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stones	punct
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stones	amod
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thought	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cakes	det
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 best	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 best	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 best	det
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 thought	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grabbed	punct
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 grabbed	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monkey	det
17	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grabbed	nsubj
18	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 girl	det
20	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 girl	amod
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grabbed	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 crowd	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 crowd	det
24	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	flat stones				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the cakes			good property	tree rules
3	grab	past	the monkey	the prettiest girl	the crowd		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent girl=Theme from crowd=Source

Option 4

yeah, flat stones, and the cakes were kinda burnt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stones	punct
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stones	amod
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 burnt	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 burnt	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cakes	det
8	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 burnt	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burnt	aux:pass
10	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	11 burnt	advmod
11	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stones	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · passive	flat stones not said here	the cakes				kinda property	tree rules

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