Test 7 · ★ · Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey…

What excuse did the hare give for the second visit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hare · What happens: be, give

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 give	obj
2	excuse	excuse	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hare	det
5	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 visit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 visit	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 visit	amod
10	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	give	past · do-support	the hare					for the second visit	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for visit=Asset

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

Said he wanted food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	ccomp
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past	he	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Said he only wanted a snog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snog	det
6	snog	snog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past	he	a snog					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot snog=Theme

Option 3

Claimed he only fancied a chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 fancied	advmod
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Claimed	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chat	det
6	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fancy	past	he	a chat					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chat=Stimulus

Option 4

Said he wanted a little talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 talk	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 talk	amod
6	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past	he	a little talk					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot talk=Theme

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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