Test 10 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56…

Did she write a new order and sneak the seals across?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: write, sneak · To what, where: new order, seals

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1255 «Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56: the princess swaps a letter and a wedding is ordered» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 write	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 write	nsubj
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 order	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 order	amod
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 write	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sneak	cc
8	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 write	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seals	det
10	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sneak	obj
11	across	across	ADV	_	8 sneak	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · do-support	she	a new order					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	sneak	infinitive	she not said here	the seals				across property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she moved them over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 moved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moved	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moved	nsubj
4	moved	move	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 moved	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	4 moved	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move over	past	she	them = they					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, she copied the seals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 copied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 copied	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 copied	nsubj
4	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seals	det
6	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 copied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past	she	the seals					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, she carefully moved the wax seals onto a brand new sheet of paper

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 moved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moved	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 moved	nsubj
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 moved	advmod
5	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seals	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wax	det
7	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seals	nsubj
8	seals	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	onto	onto	ADP	_	13 sheet	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sheet	det
11	brand	brand	ADV	_	12 new	advmod
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sheet	amod
13	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seals	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 paper	case
15	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sheet	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	she					carefully property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	seal	present	the wax					onto a new sheet of paper	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient onto sheet=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she tore up the order and burned the seals in the lamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tore	nsubj
4	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 tore	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 order	det
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tore	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 burned	cc
9	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tore	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 seals	det
11	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 burned	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 lamp	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lamp	det
14	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore up	past	she	the order					tree rules
2	burn	past	she not said here	the seals		the lamp			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seal=Theme

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