Test 4 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel…

Hang on, why's the prince taking a girl with one hand home?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, prince · What happens: hang on, be, take · To what, where: prince, girl

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 prince	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 prince	advmod
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 prince	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hang	obl
8	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 prince	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hand	nummod
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obl
14	home	home	ADV	_	8 taking	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		the prince			tree rules
3	take	gerund	the prince not said here		a girl	with one hand; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination

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

Cos she's the one he fancies, dead simple, and his mum and dad can deal with it

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 one	case
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fancies	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fancies	nsubj
7	fancies	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fancies	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 simple	amod
10	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fancies	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 deal	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 deal	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mum	nmod:poss
14	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deal	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dad	cc
16	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mum	conj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 deal	aux
18	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fancies	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 deal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	she	cos the one	tree rules
2	fancy	present	he	simple property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	deal	can	his mum and dad	with it	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos he loves her, that's the whole story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 loves	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loves	nsubj
3	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 story	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loves	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loves	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 story	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 story	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	he	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	is a	present	that	the whole story					tree rules

Option 3

Cos she's the one he fancies, dead simple, even with her hand gone and everything

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 one	case
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fancies	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fancies	nsubj
7	fancies	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fancies	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 simple	amod
10	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fancies	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	16 gone	advmod
13	with	with	SCONJ	_	16 gone	mark
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
16	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fancies	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 everything	cc
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 gone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					cos the one	tree rules
2	fancy	present	he					simple property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos she's the one he fancies, dead simple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 one	case
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fancies	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fancies	nsubj
7	fancies	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fancies	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 simple	amod
10	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fancies	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					cos the one	tree rules
2	fancy	present	he					simple property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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