Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess of Rahmatabad, part 7: th…

Bruv, how did the chest not let the water in?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: not let in · To what, where: water

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 let	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chest	det
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 let	advmod
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	8 let	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let in	past · do-support	Bruv	the water					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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

It was tightly shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shut	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	cop
3	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	4 shut	advmod
4	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was jointed so tight nothing got through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jointed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jointed	aux:pass
3	jointed	joint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
5	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nothing	amod
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jointed	advcl
8	through	through	ADV	_	7 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joint	past · passive		It					tree rules
2	get through	past	nothing					through property	vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It had seams sealed with hot pitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seams	seam	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seams	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 pitch	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pitch	amod
7	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sealed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	seams					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seam=Patient
2	seal	participle		seams not said here				with hot pitch	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

They used some strong wax on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 wax	det
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wax	amod
5	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	They	some strong wax		wax			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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