Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Raja's Son and the Princess Labam,…

who told him her name anyway?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: her · What happens: tell, name · To what, where: name, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1819 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Raja's Son and the Princess Labam, part 3: magic things carry the prince to the princess» 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 name	nmod:poss
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 told	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past		her name	him = he			anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Topic
2	name		her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

A parrot named Hiraman in the jungle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 parrot	acl
4	Hiraman	Hiraman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 jungle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jungle	det
7	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a parrot not said here		the jungle			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A talking parrot called Hiraman, far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 parrot	det
2	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 parrot	compound
3	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 parrot	acl
5	Hiraman	Hiraman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 parrot	punct
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 parrot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a talking parrot not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Her nurse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nurse	nmod:poss
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A bird called Hiraman nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bird	acl
4	Hiraman	Hiraman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
5	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	2 bird	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a bird not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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