Test 12 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel…

Right, so who's the real villain here, the brother or the king?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: real villain

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1309 «Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel brother cuts off his sister's hand, and a prince finds her crying in a tree» 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	Right	right	INTJ	_	8 villain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 villain	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 villain	advmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 villain	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 villain	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 villain	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 villain	amod
8	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 villain	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brother	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brother	det
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 villain	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 king	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brother	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 villain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the real villain and the brother or the king		here			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

The king, no question, cos he believed the lies without even checking the facts

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 believed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 question	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 king	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 believed	punct
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 believed	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 believed	nsubj
9	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lies	det
11	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 believed	obj
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	14 checking	mark
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 checking	advmod
14	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 believed	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 facts	det
16	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 checking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the king and no question	the lies					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lie=Stimulus
2	check	gerund	the king and no question not said here	the facts					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme

Option 2

The brother, no question, he's the snake who started it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snake	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 question	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 brother	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 snake	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 snake	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snake	det
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 started	nsubj
12	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 snake	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 started	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the brother and no question	the snake					tree rules
2	start	past	the snake	snake					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

The brother, obviously mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	5 mate	advmod
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The brother, no question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 question	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	conj

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

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