Test 9 · ★ · Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monk…

Did the king of Khaistan get to keep the golden cups?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, get, keep · To what, where: golden cups

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Khaistan	case
5	Khaistan	Khaistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cups	det
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cups	amod
11	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	the king of Khaistan		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	keep	to-infinitive	the king of Khaistan not said here	the golden cups	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme

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

Yeah, they kept the cups at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cups	det
6	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	the cups		home			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cup=Theme at home=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, each guest kept their cup as a memory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 guest	det
4	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cup	nmod:poss
7	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 memory	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 memory	det
10	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	each guest	their cup				as a memory	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, but the king demanded they be returned at dawn, so the guests all left with empty hands

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 demanded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 demanded	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 demanded	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 demanded	nsubj
6	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 returned	nsubj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 returned	aux:pass
9	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 demanded	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 dawn	case
11	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returned	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 left	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 guests	det
15	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 left	nsubj
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 left	advmod
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 demanded	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past	the king				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	return	infinitive · passive		they	dawn		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	leave	past	the guests			with empty hands; all property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the king kept all of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 kept	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the king	all					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme

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