Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Raja's Son and the Princess Labam,…

bro, what's the deal with those four fakirs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 fakirs	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 fakirs	det
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 fakirs	nummod
10	fakirs	fakir	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deal	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bro	the deal				with that four fakirs	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 · ✓ the right answer

They were fighting over four magic things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fighting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fighting	aux
3	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	7 things	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 things	nummod
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past · progressive	They					over four magic things	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over thing=Theme

Option 2

They were quarrelling over one stolen horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 quarrelling	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quarrelling	aux
3	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	7 horse	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 horse	nummod
6	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quarrelling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quarrell	past · progressive	They					over one stolen horse	tree rules
2	steal	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They were arguing about who owned the bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arguing	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arguing	aux
3	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 owned	mark
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 owned	nsubj
6	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arguing	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bowl	det
8	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past · progressive	They						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	own	past		the bowl					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bowl=Theme

Option 4

They lost a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	They	a horse					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality

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