Test 5 · ★ · African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60:…

wait the monkey took a little girl, that's messed up fam

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wait monkey · What happens: wait, take, mess up · To what, where: little girl, that

This is test 5 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 monkey	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 messed	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 messed	nsubj:pass
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 messed	aux:pass
11	messed	mess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 messed	compound:prt
13	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 messed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	wait	infinitive				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	the wait monkey		a little girl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination
3	mess up	present · passive		that		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, the monkeys sent her back home safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkeys	det
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	8 home	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sent	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the monkeys	her = she				home, safe property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he did, and she cried all the way home to her mother

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	_	6 cried	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 way	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 mother	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl

#	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	cry speech: express	past	she	all way	her mother				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient

Option 3

nah, she ran home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	she					home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he did, but she went up the palm tree and learned to swing

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	_	6 went	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 learned	cc
12	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 swing	mark
14	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 learned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	he		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go up	past	she	the palm tree	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	learn	past	he not said here		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	swing	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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