Test 6 · ★ · African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60:…

be real, did the tortoise really win the race or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do, win · To what, where: tortoise, race

This is test 6 · ★ 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	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 win	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 real	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tortoise	det
6	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 win	advmod
8	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 race	det
10	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 win	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 race	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 win	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive		real property	tree rules
2	do	past	the tortoise		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Eventuality
3	win	present	the race		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

he won, the stag dropped dead on the grass

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 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dropped	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stag	det
5	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	nsubj
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 won	advcl
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dropped	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 grass	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grass	det
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	he						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	past	the stag			the grass		dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on grass=Trajectory

Option 2

he lost, the stag ran off to the river

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stag	det
5	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run off	past	the stag					to the river result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result

Option 3

he won, because his cousins fooled the stag into running himself to death on the grass

The tree, 16 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 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fooled	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 fooled	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cousins	nmod:poss
6	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fooled	nsubj
7	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 won	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stag	det
9	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fooled	obj
10	into	into	SCONJ	_	11 running	mark
11	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fooled	advcl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 running	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 death	case
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 running	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 grass	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grass	det
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	win	past	he				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fool	past	his cousins	the stag			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Patient
3	run	gerund	his cousins not said here	himself = he	the grass	to death	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to death=Initial_Location on grass=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the stag won the race fair, but then he died of a broken heart later

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 won	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stag	det
4	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 won	nsubj
5	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 race	det
7	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 won	obj
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 won	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 died	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 died	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 died	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 died	nsubj
13	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 won	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 heart	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 heart	det
16	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 heart	amod
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 died	obl
18	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 won	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the stag	the race		fair, late property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
2	die	past	stag		then	of a broken heart	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of heart=Causer
3	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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