Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Ball-Carrier, part 11: the boy is fatt…

Wait, so where did the Bad One go off to?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Bad One · What happens: wait, go off

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1210 «Indian Fairy Tales, Ball-Carrier, part 11: the boy is fattened up for a feast» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 go	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 One	det
7	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 One	amod
8	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 go	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	9 go	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go off	past · do-support	the Bad One						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

To invite the water-demons round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 invite	mark
2	invite	invite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 demons	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 demons	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 water	punct
6	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 invite	obj
7	round	round	ADV	_	2 invite	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite	to-infinitive			the water demons			round property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To the bridge to chat with the water-demons about the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 bridge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bridge	det
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 chat	mark
5	chat	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bridge	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 demons	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 demons	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 demons	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 water	punct
10	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chat	obl
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 gold	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gold	det
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 demons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	to-infinitive						with the water demons about the gold	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with demon=Co-Agent

Option 3

To go round and invite the water-demons over for the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 invite	cc
5	invite	invite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 demons	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 demons	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 water	punct
9	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 invite	obj
10	over	over	ADV	_	5 invite	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 feast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feast	det
13	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go round	to-infinitive						round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	invite	infinitive			the water demons			for the feast; over property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Recipient

Option 4

To catch more boys outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 boys	amod
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obj
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		more boys				outside property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme

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