Test 4 · ★ · Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey…

Wait, so what was the lion's proper problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: proper problem

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	10 problem	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	10 problem	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 problem	obj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 problem	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 problem	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 lion	case
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 problem	amod
10	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the lion's proper problem					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

He was bare sick lately

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 sick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	cop
3	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sick	amod
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	lately	lately	ADV	_	4 sick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					lately, sick property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was proper poorly

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 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	2 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	He					poorly, properly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He was proper knackered

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 knackered	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knackered	aux:pass
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 knackered	advmod
4	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knacker	past · passive		He				properly property	tree rules

Option 4

He was dead ill, mate

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 ill	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ill	amod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ill	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					mate vocative; ill 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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