Test 5 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56…

Was the princess a proper nosy parker?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: princess

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 princess	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 parker	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 parker	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parker	amod
6	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parker	amod
7	parker	parker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 parker	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the princess					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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she had a devouring curiosity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 curiosity	det
6	devouring	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 curiosity	amod
7	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	a devouring curiosity					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient
2	devour	gerund							vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, she was rather a bit nosy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 nosy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nosy	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nosy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nosy	cop
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 nosy	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nosy	obl:unmarked
8	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					a bit obl:unmarked; nosy property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, she just wanted to sleep here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here			here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, she was far too sleepy and polite to snoop about anything at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 sleepy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sleepy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sleepy	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 sleepy	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 sleepy	advmod
7	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 polite	cc
9	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sleepy	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 snoop	mark
11	snoop	snoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 polite	csubj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 anything	case
13	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 snoop	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	far, sleepy property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here		tree rules
3	snoop	to-infinitive		about anything	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about anything=Theme

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