Test 11 · ★ · South American Tales, The Puma and the Monkey, part 62: th…

Ha, the puma's whole plan was just a massive fail, huh?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole plan, puma · What happens: be, plan · To what, where: massive fail

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1261 «South American Tales, The Puma and the Monkey, part 62: the puma tricks the stag, the stag is framed for theft, the monkey outwits the puma» 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	12 fail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ha	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 puma	det
4	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 puma	case
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plan	amod
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fail	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fail	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 fail	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fail	det
11	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fail	amod
12	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 huh	punct
14	huh	huh	INTJ	_	12 fail	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 fail	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the puma's whole plan	a massive fail					tree rules
2	plan		the puma						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

Yeah, the monkey foiled him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 foiled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 foiled	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 foiled	nsubj
5	foiled	foil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 foiled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	foil	past	the monkey	him = he					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the monkey outwitted him at every single step of the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 outwitted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 outwitted	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outwitted	nsubj
5	outwitted	outwit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 outwitted	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 step	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 step	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 step	amod
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outwitted	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 step	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outwit	past	the monkey	him = he				at every single step of the way	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	step			the way					nom step «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Yeah, the monkey foiled him and the stag was saved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 foiled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 foiled	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 foiled	nsubj
5	foiled	foil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 foiled	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saved	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stag	det
9	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saved	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saved	aux:pass
11	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 foiled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	foil	past	the monkey	him = he					tree rules
2	save	past · passive		the stag					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, the shepherd stopped him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stopped	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shepherd	det
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	nsubj
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stopped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the shepherd	him = he					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality

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