Test 8 · Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not you…
Kieran bangs the zoo glass: «wake up, you lazy monkey». What's the most likely result?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kieran, you, likely result · What happens: bang, wake up, monkey, be · To what, where: zoo glass · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 of lesson 458 «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» of the everyday 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: Kieran bangs the zoo glass: «wake up, you lazy monkey».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bangs | nsubj |
| 2 | bangs | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 glass | det |
| 4 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glass | compound |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bangs | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 wake | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 wake | punct |
| 8 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 bangs | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 wake | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 monkey | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 monkey | nsubj |
| 12 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 monkey | amod |
| 13 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wake | obl |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 wake | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bangs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bang | present | Kieran | the zoo glass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wake up in a quote | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | monkey in a quote | you | 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.
Sentence 2: What's the most likely result?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 result | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 result | amod |
| 6 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the likely result | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
The monkey wakes up and waves back at him happily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wakes | nsubj |
| 3 | wakes | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 wakes | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 waves | cc |
| 6 | waves | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wakes | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 waves | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 waves | obl |
| 10 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 6 waves | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | present | the monkey | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | wave back | present | the monkey not said here | at monkey; happily property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location |
Option 2
The keeper gives him a prize
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 keeper | det |
| 2 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gives | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 prize | det |
| 6 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the keeper | a prize | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient prize=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The monkey falls asleep again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 falls | xcomp |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 falls | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | the monkey | again | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The monkey gets stressed and may throw stuff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stressed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | stressed | stress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 throw | cc |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 throw | aux |
| 7 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stressed | conj |
| 8 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stress | present · passive | the monkey | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | throw | may | stuff | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=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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