Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and t…

Innit, what did the king do to the poor woman in the desert?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit, king · What happens: do · To what, where: desert

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1253 «Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and the hermit's prophecy» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 woman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 desert	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 desert	det
14	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Innit						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the king			the desert		to the poor woman	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

chopped her head off and buried her in the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chopped	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	1 chopped	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 buried	cc
6	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 chopped	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 buried	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sand	det
10	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past		her head					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	bury	past		her = she		the sand			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in sand=Destination

Option 2

took her as a slave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 took	obj
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 slave	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 slave	det
5	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		her = she				as a slave	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme as slave=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

chopped her head off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chopped	obj
4	off	off	ADV	_	1 chopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past		her head				off property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 4

chopped her head off after she begged him for water in the desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chopped	obj
4	off	off	ADV	_	1 chopped	advmod
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 begged	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	nsubj
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 chopped	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begged	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 desert	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 desert	det
13	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past		her head				off property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	beg speech: request	past	she		him = he	the desert		for water	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient for water=Topic

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