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Test 3 · ★ · Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey…

Innit the hare the clever one here? What did she tell the lion?

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

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Innit the hare the clever one here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Innit	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Innit	obj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Innit	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here	the hare		here			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.

Sentence 2: What did she tell the lion?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	hare		the lion				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient lion=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

That she wanted to see him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wanted	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	That						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	That not said here	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2

That the donkey really fancied him and wanted to marry him as soon as possible

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 donkey	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fancied	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 fancied	advmod
5	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fancied	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fancied	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 marry	obj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 marry	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 possible	mark
15	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 soon	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	that donkey	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	want	past	that donkey not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	that donkey not said here	donkey				soon property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That the donkey fancied him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 donkey	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	that donkey	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

That the donkey was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 donkey	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hungry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that donkey					hungry property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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