Test 8 · ★ · African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60:…

is the monkey the sneakiest one in the forest, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: monkey · What happens: be · To what, where: forest

This is test 8 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 forest	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forest	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	sneakiest	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forest	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	9 forest	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 real	case
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forest	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 forest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the monkey			the forest			tree rules
2	be		the monkey not said here						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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yep, quicker on his feet and hands than the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 quicker	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 quicker	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hands	cc
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feet	conj
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 rest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quicker	obl

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

Option 2

yep, super sneaky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 sneaky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 sneaky	advmod
4	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

nah, he's slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 slow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slow	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	cop
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					slow property	tree rules

Option 4

yep, he's quick and sly, always up to something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 quick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quick	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quick	cop
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sly	cc
7	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quick	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 something	punct
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 something	advmod
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 always	fixed
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 something	case
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 quick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					quick property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

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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