Test 12 · ★ · Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monk…

Was Wali Dâd nice to people for the rest of his life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wali · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1258 «Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey, part 59: the clever tortoise tricks an elephant and a whale into a tug-of-war» 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	4 nice	cop
2	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nice	nsubj
3	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Wali	flat
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nice	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 rest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 life	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 life	nmod:poss
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 nice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Wali					to people for the rest of Wali's life; nice property	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

Nah, once he got the palace he forgot about the poor and never visited his old village again

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	5 got	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forgot	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forgot	nsubj
9	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 poor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poor	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forgot	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 visited	cc
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 visited	advmod
15	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forgot	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 village	nmod:poss
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 village	amod
18	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 visited	obj
19	again	again	ADV	_	15 visited	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	the palace			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus
2	forget	past	he			about the poor	tree rules
3	not visit	past	he not said here	his old village	again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Co-Agent

Option 2

Yep, he helped everyone in trouble and built schools and wells across the whole kingdom of Khaistan

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 helped	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 built	cc
9	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 helped	conj
10	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 built	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wells	cc
12	wells	well	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 schools	conj
13	across	across	ADP	_	16 kingdom	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kingdom	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 kingdom	amod
16	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Khaistan	case
18	Khaistan	Khaistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 kingdom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	he		everyone	trouble			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Beneficiary
2	build	past	he not said here	schools and wells		the whole kingdom of Khaistan			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset school=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he helped everyone in trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 helped	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	he		everyone	trouble			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Beneficiary

Option 4

Yep, he helped the poor often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poor	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 helped	obj
7	often	often	ADV	_	4 helped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	he	the poor				often property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Beneficiary

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