Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess of Rahmatabad, part 7: th…

Dead funny, what did the prince do before he opened the chest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dead funny, he · What happens: do, open · To what, where: prince, chest

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 do	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 funny	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 opened	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 opened	nsubj
11	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chest	det
13	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the prince	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	do	present	Dead funny		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	open	past	he	the chest	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=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

Had his guards watch the river closely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 his	aux
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 guards	nmod:poss
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 watch	nsubj
4	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watch	obj
7	closely	closely	ADV	_	4 watch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present	his guards	the river				closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Told his men to watch the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 men	nmod:poss
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Told	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 watch	mark
5	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Told	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			his men				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
2	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive		the water					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Got his men with swords ready just in case

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 men	nmod:poss
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Got	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 swords	case
5	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Got	obl
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 case	amod
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 case	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 case	case
9	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		ready case	his men			with swords	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary case=Theme

Option 4

Drew swords, why not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drew	drew	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swords	amod
2	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 why	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 swords	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 why	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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