Test 1 · ★ · Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey…

Mate, did the donkey like being a washerman's donkey or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, be · To what, where: donkey

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1284 «Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey tells the shark how a greedy donkey was tricked by a hare and a lion» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 donkey	det
5	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	11 donkey	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 donkey	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 washerman	det
9	washerman	washerman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 donkey	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 washerman	case
11	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nah	cc
13	nah	nah	INTJ	_	11 donkey	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the donkey					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Eventuality
2	is	gerund						like a washerman's donkey	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, she legged it to the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 legged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 legged	nsubj
4	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 legged	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 legged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	she	it				to the woods	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, she hated it and bunked off deep into the forest where nobody could find her

The tree, 16 words

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bunked	cc
7	bunked	bunk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 forest	compound
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 bunked	compound:prt
9	deep	deep	ADV	_	12 forest	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hated	conj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 find	advmod
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 find	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forest	acl:relcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hate	past	she	it	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	bunk off	participle			vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
3	find	could	nobody	her = she	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she bunked off into the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 bunked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bunked	nsubj
4	bunked	bunk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 bunked	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bunked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bunk off	past	she			the forest			vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, she did a runner somewhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 runner	det
6	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she	a runner				somewhere property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Eventuality

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