Test 5 · ★ · South American Tales, The Puma and the Monkey, part 62: th…
Ha, the snake bit him, didn't it?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake · What happens: bite, not do · To what, where: him
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | _ | 5 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ha | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snake | det |
| 4 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nsubj |
| 5 | bit | bite | 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 bit | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bit | conj |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 did | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past | the snake | him = he | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not do | past | snake | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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, right on the paw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 paw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 paw | punct |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 paw | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 paw | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 paw | det |
| 6 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, right on the head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 head | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 head | punct |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 head | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, right on the paw and he ran off crying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 paw | punct |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 paw | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 paw | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 paw | det |
| 6 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeah | vocative |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 ran | compound:prt |
| 11 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ran | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | he | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | he not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, it bit him right on the paw and then left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bit | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | nsubj |
| 4 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | obj |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 paw | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 paw | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 paw | det |
| 9 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bit | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 left | advmod |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bit | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past | it | him = he | the paw | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient on paw=Location | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | then | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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