Test 9 · ★ · African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60:…

what's the deal with the barber's tail snip?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 snip	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 barber	det
7	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snip	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 barber	case
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snip	compound
10	snip	snip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the barber's tail snip						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

the monkey stormed off, roaring for his razor back while the barber laughed at him from the shop door

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laughed	nsubj
3	stormed	storm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 monkey	acl
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 stormed	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 roaring	punct
6	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 laughed	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 razor	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 razor	nmod:poss
9	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roaring	obl
10	back	back	ADV	_	6 roaring	advmod
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 laughed	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 barber	det
13	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laughed	nsubj
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laughed	obl
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
19	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 door	compound
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	storm off	participle		the monkey not said here			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	roar	gerund	the monkey not said here			for monkey's razor	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for razor=Recipient
3	laugh	past	the monkey		the shop door	at barber	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the monkey stormed off, roaring for his razor, and then he came back to steal a whole basket of fish

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
3	stormed	storm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 monkey	acl
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 stormed	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 roaring	punct
6	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stormed	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 razor	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 razor	nmod:poss
9	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roaring	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 came	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 steal	mark
17	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 came	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 basket	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 basket	amod
20	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 steal	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 fish	case
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 basket	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	storm off	participle		the monkey not said here			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	roar	gerund				for monkey's razor	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for razor=Recipient
3	come back	past	the monkey		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	steal	to-infinitive	the monkey not said here	a whole basket of fish			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location basket=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the monkey stormed off, roaring for his razor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	stormed	storm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 monkey	acl
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 stormed	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 roaring	punct
6	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 monkey	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 razor	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 razor	nmod:poss
9	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roaring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	storm off	participle		the monkey not said here					vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	roar	gerund	the monkey not said here					for monkey's razor	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for razor=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the barber cut him and he laughed it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 barber	det
2	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 laughed	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laughed	nsubj
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laughed	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 laughed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the barber	him = he					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
2	laugh off	past	barber	it					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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