Test 4 · ★ · African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60:…

lol the monkey swapped a razor for a fish, that's wild

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkey, that · What happens: swap, be · To what, where: razor

This is test 4 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 swapped	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swapped	nsubj
4	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 razor	det
6	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swapped	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 fish	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fish	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swapped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wild	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 wild	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wild	cop
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swapped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	the monkey	a razor				for a fish	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent razor=Theme for fish=Co-Theme
2	is	present	that					wild property	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

he did, and the baker got the fish

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 got	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baker	det
6	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fish	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	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	get	past	the baker	the fish					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus

Option 2

nah, the woman got a bigger fish for the razor and she was happy about the whole deal

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fish	det
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 razor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 razor	det
11	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fish	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 happy	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 happy	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 happy	cop
15	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	19 deal	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 deal	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 deal	amod
19	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 happy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the woman	a bigger fish				for the razor	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for razor=Source
2	is	past	woman					about the whole deal; happy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he did, and the woman lost the razor

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 lost	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lost	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 razor	det
9	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	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	lose	past	the woman	the razor					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent razor=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he did, and the woman lost the razor when the monkey ran off with it up the palm tree

The tree, 19 words

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 lost	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lost	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 razor	det
9	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 ran	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monkey	det
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 ran	compound:prt
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ran	obl
17	up	up	ADP	_	13 ran	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
19	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tree	compound
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	the palm tree		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	past	the woman	the razor		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent razor=Eventuality
3	run off	past	the monkey		with razor	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material

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