Test 5 · ★ · Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey…

Did the donkey fight back or did she just wimp out?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: donkey · What happens: fight back, wimp out

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fight	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fight	nsubj
4	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 fight	advmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 wimp	cc
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wimp	aux
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wimp	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 wimp	advmod
10	wimp	wimp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fight	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 wimp	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight back	past · do-support	the donkey						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wimp out	past · do-support	donkey						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

She booted him really hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 booted	nsubj
2	booted	boot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 booted	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 booted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boot	past	She	him = he				hard property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

She gave him a proper kicking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kicking	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kicking	amod
6	kicking	kicking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	She	a proper kicking	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kicking=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She kicked him something rotten and bit him for good measure as well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	obj
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 kicked	obj
5	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bit	cc
7	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kicked	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bit	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 measure	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 measure	amod
11	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	obl
12	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	7 bit	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	She	him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient something=Result
2	bite	past	She not said here	him = he				for good measure	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She kicked him something rotten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	obj
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 kicked	obj
5	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	She	him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient something=Result

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