Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a cleve…
Dude, the shark was so dumb, wasn't he?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: he
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dumb | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shark | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shark | det |
| 4 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dude | conj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dumb | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 dumb | advmod |
| 7 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dumb | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 he | cop |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 he | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dumb | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 dumb | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dude and the shark | dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | he | 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
He believed the heart thing straight up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | compound |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 believed | obj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 up | advmod |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 believed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | He | the heart thing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yeah, he was dumb, he believed the monkey about the heart and turned back right away
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 dumb | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dumb | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dumb | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dumb | cop |
| 5 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 believed | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 believed | nsubj |
| 8 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dumb | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monkey | det |
| 10 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 believed | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 monkey | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turned | cc |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dumb | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 turned | advmod |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 18 away | advmod |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 turned | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | past | he | the monkey | about the heart | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | turn back | past | he not said here | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
He swallowed the monkey's whole story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swallowed | nsubj |
| 2 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monkey | det |
| 4 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 monkey | case |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swallowed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | He | the monkey's whole story | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
Option 4
He believed the heart thing straight up and never checked the tree himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | compound |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 believed | obj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 up | advmod |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 believed | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 checked | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 checked | advmod |
| 10 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 checked | obj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 checked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | He | the heart thing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not check | past | He not said here | the tree | himself = he obl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
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