Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a cleve…

So the kuyu fruit was like the monkey's whole thing, huh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kuyu fruit · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	11 thing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fruit	det
3	kuyu	kuyu	X	_	4 fruit	compound
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	11 thing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monkey	det
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 monkey	case
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 huh	punct
13	huh	huh	INTJ	_	11 thing	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the kuyu fruit					like the monkey's whole thing	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

Nah, he hated the fruit a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fruit	det
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hated	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hated	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	he	the fruit				a lot obl:unmarked	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he fed the shark loads of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	nsubj
4	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 loads	det
6	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loads	compound
7	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	he	the shark loads of it					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Recipient

Option 3

Nope, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	1 Nope	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yeah, it was his favourite food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 food	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 food	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 food	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 food	nmod:poss
6	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	his favourite food					tree rules

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