Test 11 · ★ · Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey…

Wait, so the monkey is only telling the shark this to waste time, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, monkey · What happens: wait, tell, waste · To what, where: shark · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 telling	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 telling	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 telling	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 telling	aux
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 telling	advmod
8	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shark	det
10	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 telling	obj
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 telling	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 waste	mark
13	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 telling	advcl
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waste	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	the monkey	the shark		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent shark=Recipient this=Topic
3	waste	to-infinitive	the monkey not said here		time	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he's lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 lying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lying	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present · progressive	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No, he's serious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 serious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 serious	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 serious	cop
5	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					serious property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he's winding him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 winding	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 winding	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 winding	aux
5	winding	wind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 winding	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 winding	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wind up	present · progressive	he	him = he					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he's taking the mick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 taking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taking	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taking	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taking	aux
5	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mick	det
7	mick	mick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · progressive	he	the mick					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mick=Theme

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