Test 13 · ★ · Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey…

Proper random, but how did the monkey feel about the shark?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkey · What happens: feel

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 random	amod
2	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feel	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 feel	cc
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 feel	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 feel	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monkey	det
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feel	nsubj
9	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 random	parataxis
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 shark	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shark	det
12	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feel	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 random	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the monkey					about the shark	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about shark=Location

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

He was really enjoying it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 enjoying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enjoying	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 enjoying	advmod
4	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 enjoying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	past · progressive	He	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

He was having a good time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 having	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 having	aux
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · progressive	He				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was having a right laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 having	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 having	aux
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 laugh	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 laugh	amod
6	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · progressive	He	a right laugh					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient

Option 4

He thought the whole shark thing was a right laugh and he loved every minute

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
5	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laugh	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laugh	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 laugh	det
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 laugh	amod
10	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 loved	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 loved	nsubj
13	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 minute	det
15	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the whole shark thing	a right laugh		tree rules
3	love	past	he		minute	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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