Test 7 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

Dude, who was the servant in the kettle thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: servant, kettle thing

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 servant	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 servant	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 servant	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servant	det
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	appos
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 thing	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	compound
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 servant	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude	the servant		the kettle thing			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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Lung-Woman, the Bad One's servant who was hired to watch the kettle all day and night long

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lung	lung	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Woman	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Lung	punct
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 servant	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 One	det
6	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 One	amod
7	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servant	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 One	case
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Woman	appos
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hired	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hired	aux:pass
12	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 servant	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 watch	mark
14	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hired	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kettle	det
16	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watch	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watch	obl:unmarked
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 night	cc
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 day	conj
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 watch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire	past · passive		the Bad One's servant					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	watch	to-infinitive		the kettle			day	long property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme

Option 2

Lung-Woman, the chief's daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lung	lung	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Woman	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Lung	punct
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 daughter	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chief	det
6	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 chief	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Woman	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Lung-Woman, the Bad One's servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lung	lung	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Woman	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Lung	punct
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 servant	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 One	det
6	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 One	amod
7	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servant	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 One	case
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Woman	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Lung-Woman, the witch's sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lung	lung	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Woman	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Lung	punct
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sister	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sister	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 witch	case
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Woman	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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