Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…
Monkeys were proper dancing till someone chucked nuts. What happened?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Monkeys, someone · What happens: be, chuck, happen · To what, where: proper dancing, nuts
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 394 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs from a peg, pretends to be dead, and fails to lure the Mice out» 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
Sentence 1: Monkeys were proper dancing till someone chucked nuts.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dancing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dancing | cop |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dancing | amod |
| 4 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 chucked | mark |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 chucked | nsubj |
| 7 | chucked | chuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dancing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chucked | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dancing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Monkeys | proper dancing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chuck | past | someone | nuts | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: What happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
they stopped dancing and fought over the nuts thrown at them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stopped | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fought | cc |
| 5 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 nuts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nuts | det |
| 8 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fought | obl |
| 9 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 nuts | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thrown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | they | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | dance | gerund | they not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fight | past | they not said here | over the nuts | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over nut=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | participle | the nuts not said here | at nuts = nut | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at they=Destination |
Option 2
they ran off the stage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 stage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stage | det |
| 5 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | they | the stage | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stage=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
they fought over the nuts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 nuts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nuts | det |
| 5 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | they | over the nuts | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over nut=Theme |
Option 4
they tumbled off the stage and grabbed at the nuts on the floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tumbled | nsubj |
| 2 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 stage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stage | det |
| 5 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tumbled | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grabbed | cc |
| 7 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tumbled | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 nuts | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nuts | det |
| 10 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grabbed | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grabbed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tumble | past | they | the stage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme off stage=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | grab | participle | they not said here | the nuts | on the floor | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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