Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess of Rahmatabad, part 7: th…

Mate, why did the king go all pale when the jogi talked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king, jogi · What happens: go, talk

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1282 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess of Rahmatabad, part 7: the chest in the river and the prince who opened it» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 pale	det
9	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 talked	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 jogi	det
12	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talked	nsubj
13	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 go	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the king					Mate vocative; pale property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	participle	the jogi						vn talk-37.5 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he was dead scared of the creature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 scared	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scared	amod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 creature	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 creature	det
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the creature; scared property	tree rules

Option 2

Cos the jogi was really angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 jogi	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jogi	det
3	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						cos the jogi; angry property	tree rules

Option 3

Cos he was scared the jogi would hit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jogi	det
6	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hit	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hit	aux
8	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	hit	would	the jogi	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 4

Cos he was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 tired	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					tired property	tree rules

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