Test 2 · ★ · African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60:…

no way the fox starved in his hole, bruh?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fox · What happens: starve · To what, where: way, hole

This is test 2 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starved	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starved	nsubj
5	starved	starve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hole	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hole	nmod:poss
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starved	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruh	punct
10	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 starved	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 starved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past	the fox	no way		fox's hole			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

nah, he ate well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he					well property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he did not, the fox got fed by the monkey

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	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 did	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fed	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fed	nsubj:pass
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fed	aux:pass
8	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 monkey	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monkey	det
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feed	past · passive	the monkey	the fox					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he did, the tortoise never brought him a bird

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 brought	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tortoise	det
5	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 brought	advmod
7	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brought	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	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	not bring	past	the tortoise	a bird	him = he				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bird=Theme

Option 4

nah, the tortoise brought him fruit each day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 brought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tortoise	det
4	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	nsubj
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	obj
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obj
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	the tortoise	fruit	him = he		day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination fruit=Theme

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