Test 13 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess La…
Real talk, what did the tiger's missus want to do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: do, want · To what, where: missus
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 want | 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 talk | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tiger | det |
| 7 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 missus | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 tiger | case |
| 9 | missus | missus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 want | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Real talk | the tiger's missus | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent missus=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | want | present | Real talk | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Real talk not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Meet the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meet | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | imperative | you not said here | the king | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent |
Option 2
Give the prince a fine bath and meal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bath | det |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bath | amod |
| 6 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 meal | cc |
| 8 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bath | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a fine bath and meal | the prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient bath=Theme |
Option 3
Take the prince to her cubs to play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cubs | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cubs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 play | mark |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the prince | her cubs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme to cub=Destination | |||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
See the prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | the prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus |
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