Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a cleve…
At the end, what did the monkey tell the shark?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell · To what, where: shark, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1283 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a clever monkey tricks a shark into carrying him back to his tree» 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monkey | det |
| 8 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shark | det |
| 11 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | the shark | at the end | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shark=Recipient |
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
You should have let me sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | should | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | You not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | infinitive | me not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Good luck, bye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 luck | amod |
| 2 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 luck | punct |
| 4 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 2 luck | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
I wish you had not woken me
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 woken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woken | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 woken | advmod |
| 6 | woken | wake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wish | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 woken | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not wake | past · perfect · passive | you | tree rules |
Option 4
I wish you had left me alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wish | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 left | iobj |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | you | me | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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