Test 10 · ★ · Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey…

Was the hare the one who cooked the meat, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: one · What happens: be, cook · To what, where: hare, meat

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hare	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cooked	nsubj
7	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 meat	det
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cooked	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cooked	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 cooked	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the hare					tree rules
2	cook	past	the one	the meat					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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

Yeah, she lit a fire and grilled it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lit	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lit	nsubj
4	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grilled	cc
8	grilled	grill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lit	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grilled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	she	a fire					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
2	grill	past	she not said here	fire					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Nah, the lion cooked it himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cooked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooked	nsubj
5	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cooked	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 cooked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	the lion	it				lion obl:unmarked	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she made a fire and roasted it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 roasted	cc
8	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 roasted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	she	a fire					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
2	roast	past	she not said here	fire					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, she made a big fire first and then roasted the whole thing slowly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fire	amod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 made	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 roasted	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 roasted	advmod
11	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 roasted	obj
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 roasted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	she	a big fire				first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
2	roast	past	she not said here	the whole thing			then	slowly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

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