Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the m…

What did the monkey do when he got the horse?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkey · What happens: do, get · To what, where: horse

This is test 8 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the monkey		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	past	monkey	the horse	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus

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

bowed once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 bowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	participle						once property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

clapped his paws twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 paws	nmod:poss
3	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 clapped	obj
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 clapped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	past		his paws				twice property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paw=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

bowed to the Sultan then ran up the mast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ran	advcl
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 Sultan	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sultan	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 bowed	obl
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ran	advmod
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mast	det
9	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	participle						to the Sultan	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to sultan=Pivot
2	run up	past		the mast			then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mast=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

bowed three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 times	nummod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bowed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past					time		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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