Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the m…

What does the monkey do to show he's ready?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkey · What happens: do, show, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 176 «Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the monkey's handwriting wins the Sultan's favour, and the princess reveals his secret» 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	5 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 do	advcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ready	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ready	cop
10	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 show	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	the monkey		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	show	to-infinitive	the monkey not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	monkey	ready property	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

he places both paws on his head and kneels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 places	nsubj
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	both	both	ADV	_	4 paws	advmod
4	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 places	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paws	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kneels	cc
9	kneels	kneel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 places	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

hand on his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 head	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hand	nmod

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

Option 3

paw on his chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 chest	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 chest	nmod:poss
4	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 paw	nmod

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

Option 4

he lays his hand on his head and bows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lays	nsubj
2	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lays	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lays	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bows	cc
9	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 head	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	he	his hand		his head and bows			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on head=Destination

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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