Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part…

Sus, what did the monkey say he couldn't do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: do, say, not do · To what, where: monkey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sus	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Sus	the monkey	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Sus		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do	could	Sus		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

float

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	float	float	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

hold on tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 hold	compound:prt
3	tight	tight	ADV	_	1 hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	imperative	you not said here					tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	imperative	you not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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