Test 1 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess La…

Oi, what did his mum tell him he couldn't do, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, he · What happens: do, tell, not do, innit · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1818 «Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam, part 1: the prince disobeys his mother and sets out to find Labam» 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	his mum	him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not do	could	he		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	innit	infinitive	his mum not said 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

Go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Hunt at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	imperative	you not said here				night		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Go past the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	past	past	ADP	_	5 bank	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bank	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bank	compound
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			the river bank			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past bank=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hunt on the fourth side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 side	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 side	det
4	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 side	amod
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	imperative	you not said here			the fourth side			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location

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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