Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the m…

Did the captain just let the monkey write, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: monkey · What happens: do, let, write · To what, where: captain, monkey

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 captain	det
3	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 captain	appos
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obj
8	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the captain	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Eventuality
2	let	infinitive		the monkey	tree rules
3	write	infinitive	the monkey not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

He said go on, let him

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go on	infinitive			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive		him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

He said go on, let him, and then ran off

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 ran	advmod
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go on	infinitive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive		him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	run off	past	He not said here		then	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He told him to stop

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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

He made him wait outside

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	him = he					tree rules
2	wait	infinitive	him = he not said here					outside property	vn exist-47.1 «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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