Test 2 · ★ · Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the h…

wait, why did the monkey bail with her baby?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: monkey bail

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1670 «Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the hare tricks the lion, then the hyaenas» 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	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bail	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bail	compound
7	bail	bail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 baby	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 baby	nmod:poss
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	?	?	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	do	past	you not said here	the monkey bail				with her baby	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bail=Eventuality

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

Cuz the lion's nose twitched when she tickled it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 twitched	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nose	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 lion	case
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	appos
6	twitched	twitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 tickled	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tickled	nsubj
9	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 twitched	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tickled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twitch	past	Cuz						vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tickle	past	Cuz	nose					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Cuz she was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cuz	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Cuz	Cuz not said here				hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

Cuz the lion sneezed and woke up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sneezed	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sneezed	nsubj
4	sneezed	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 woke	cc
6	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sneezed	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 woke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	past	Cuz						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake up	past	Cuz not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Cuz she thought the lion would wake and eat her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lion	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wake	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wake	aux
7	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eat	cc
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wake	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Cuz		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wake	would	the lion		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	eat	infinitive	the lion not said here	lion	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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