Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part…

Ngl, why can't the King's people just grab a monkey themselves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: not grab · To what, where: people, monkey

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1371 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part 31: the jelly fish tricks a monkey into going to the sea» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grab	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 grab	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 people	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grab	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 grab	advmod
11	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 monkey	det
13	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grab	obj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 grab	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grab	can	the King's people	people	a monkey				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Beneficiary themselves=Theme

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

the monkeys are on the island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 island	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 island	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 island	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 island	det
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the monkeys			the island			tree rules

Option 2

they are too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fast	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fast	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					fast property	tree rules

Option 3

monkeys can't swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swim	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 swim	advmod
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim	can	monkeys						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the monkeys live on dry land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the monkeys			dry land			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location

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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