Test 14 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess La…

Canny, what did the tiger and his wife do for the prince?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiger · What happens: do · To what, where: tiger

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Canny	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tiger	det
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wife	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tiger	conj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tiger	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 prince	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Canny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the tiger and his wife					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Eventuality
2	do	present	the tiger and his wife not said here					for the prince	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

Gave food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		food					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Gave him salaams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gave	iobj
3	salaams	salaam	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		salaams	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient salaam=Theme

Option 3

Fed him some meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fed	obj
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 meat	det
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past		some meat	him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient meat=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Fed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past			him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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