Test 3 · ★ · Indian Tales, The Enchanted Wreath, part 1: a greedy golds…

bruh, why did the villagers all tie rocks to themselves?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, tie · To what, where: villagers, rocks

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1153 «Indian Tales, The Enchanted Wreath, part 1: a greedy goldsmith is undone, and a kind stepdaughter is rewarded by doves» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 villagers	det
6	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 tie	advmod
8	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tie	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 themselves	case
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 tie	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the villagers					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent villager=Eventuality
2	tie	present		rocks	rocks = rock				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rock=Patient to themselves=Co-Patient

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

Cuz they wanted to dive down to the gold under the bridge at the river

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dive	mark
5	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 dive	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 gold	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gold	det
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dive	obl
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 bridge	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bridge	det
12	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dive	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cuz						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	dive down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cuz not said here			the bridge		to the gold; at the river; down property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to gold=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cuz they wanted to dive to the buffalo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dive	mark
5	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 buffalo	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buffalo	det
8	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cuz						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	dive not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cuz not said here			the buffalo			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to buffalo=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cuz the priest made them do it to sink the goldsmith's ghost deep down

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priest	det
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	appos
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sink	mark
9	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 goldsmith	det
11	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ghost	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 goldsmith	case
13	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sink	obj
14	deep	deep	ADV	_	15 down	advmod
15	down	down	ADV	_	9 sink	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Cuz	them = they		tree rules
2	do	infinitive	them = they not said here	priest		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	sink	to-infinitive	them = they not said here	the goldsmith's ghost	down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ghost=Patient
4	ghost		the goldsmith			nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Cuz they wanted to sink the buffalo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sink	mark
5	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 buffalo	det
7	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cuz						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sink not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cuz not said here	the buffalo					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent buffalo=Patient

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