Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey i…
Wait, the Monkey thought Piraeus was a person, lol?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Monkey, Piraeus · What happens: wait, think, be · To what, where: person · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 153 «Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey is carried ashore on a dolphin's back, then lies about his family and drowns.» 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 | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Monkey | det |
| 4 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 6 | Piraeus | Piraeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 person | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 person | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 person | det |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 11 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 Wait | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | 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 | think speech: other | past | the Monkey | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Piraeus | a person | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he got it totally wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 7 wrong | advmod |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | it | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 2
Nah, he was sorted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sorted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sorted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorted | aux:pass |
| 5 | sorted | sort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | past · passive | he | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, he was spot on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 spot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spot | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spot | aux:pass |
| 5 | spot | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 spot | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | past · passive | he | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
Option 4
Yeah, he was well off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 off | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 off | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 off | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 off | advmod |
| 6 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | off, well 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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