Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a cleve…
Was the monkey scared when he sat on the shark's back?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: monkey · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: back
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scared | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 sat | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scared | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shark | det |
| 10 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 shark | case |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 scared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the monkey | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | monkey | the shark's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location |
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
No, he felt quite calm and relaxed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 felt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 calm | advmod |
| 6 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 relaxed | cc |
| 8 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 calm | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | he | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yes, he clung on tight the whole time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 clung | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 clung | nsubj |
| 4 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 clung | advmod |
| 6 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clung | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clung | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling on | past | he | time | tight property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Kinda at first, then he got into it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 first | case |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Kinda | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kinda | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 got | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | it | then | kinda property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
Option 4
Nope, not at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 all | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 all | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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