Test 5 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is t…

Why did the Master send the chief back home?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Master · What happens: send · To what, where: chief

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1712 «Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is tricked into the pond and becomes a White Duck» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 send	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 send	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Master	det
4	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 send	nsubj
5	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chief	det
7	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	9 home	advmod
9	home	home	ADV	_	5 send	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · do-support	the Master	the chief				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=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

His people needed him to rule them, so the Master sent him back across the lake

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 people	nmod:poss
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needed	nsubj
3	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rule	mark
6	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needed	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rule	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Master	det
11	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sent	nsubj
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 needed	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 lake	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lake	det
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	need	past	His people	him = he		tree rules
2	rule not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	people		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	send back	past	the Master	him = he	the lake	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

His people needed him to rule them, and the Master said it was his duty

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 people	nmod:poss
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needed	nsubj
3	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rule	mark
6	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needed	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rule	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Master	det
11	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 needed	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 duty	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 duty	cop
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 duty	nmod:poss
16	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	need	past	His people	him = he	tree rules
2	rule not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	people	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Master		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	Master	his duty	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

His people needed him to rule them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 people	nmod:poss
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needed	nsubj
3	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rule	mark
6	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needed	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rule	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	His people	him = he					tree rules
2	rule not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	people					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

His village asked for his return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 village	nmod:poss
2	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 return	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 return	nmod:poss
6	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	His village					for village's return	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	return		village						nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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