Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Heart of a Monkey, part 1: a cleve…

Wait, the pupils didn't go in right away, did they?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pupils · What happens: wait, not go in, do

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pupils	det
4	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	right	right	ADV	_	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 did	nsubj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not go in	past · do-support	the pupils	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past	pupils = pupil		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

Nope, they waited outside like they were told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 waited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 waited	advmod
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 waited	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	they					outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 2

Yeah, they went right in but then waited outside like they were supposed to later

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 went	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 waited	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 waited	advmod
9	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	outside	outside	ADV	_	9 waited	advmod
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 supposed	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 supposed	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 supposed	aux:pass
14	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 waited	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 later	mark
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 supposed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they			right property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	past	they not said here		then	outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	suppose	past · passive		they		late property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they rushed in right away at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rushed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rushed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rushed	nsubj
4	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 rushed	advmod
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 rushed	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 rushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush in	past	they					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory

Option 4

Nope, they stayed put outside the door like the jogi told them to do

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux:pass
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	outside	outside	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jogi	det
11	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	put	past · passive		they		the door	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme outside door=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	the jogi		them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the jogi not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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