Test 7 · ★ · African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60:…

ok but why did the fox trot off with no fruit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: trot off

This is test 7 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 trot	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 trot	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 trot	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trot	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trot	nsubj
7	trot	trot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 trot	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 fruit	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 fruit	det
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trot	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 trot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trot off	past · do-support	the fox					with no fruit	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

the fruit wasn't ripe, he said, but he hoped the tortoise would starve

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fruit	det
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ripe	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ripe	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ripe	advmod
5	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ripe	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hoped	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hoped	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hoped	nsubj
12	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ripe	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tortoise	det
14	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 starve	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 starve	aux
16	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hoped	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the fruit	ripe property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hope	past	he		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	starve	would	the tortoise		tree rules

Option 2

he was just lazy

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	4 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the fruit wasn't ripe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fruit	det
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ripe	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ripe	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ripe	advmod
5	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the fruit					ripe property	tree rules

Option 4

he said the trees were bare, but he planned to bring a bird later on

The tree, 15 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bare	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bare	cop
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 planned	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 planned	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 planned	nsubj
10	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bring	mark
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 planned	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bird	det
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obj
15	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 bring	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	12 bring	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the trees		bare property	tree rules
3	plan	past	he			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring on not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	a bird	late property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination

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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