Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Raja's Son and the Princess Labam,…

wait, why'd the old lady say no?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old lady · What happens: wait, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 say	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 say	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	would	the old lady						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

The king is strict

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strict	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strict	cop
4	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the king					strict property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The king doesn't allow foreigners to rest here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 allow	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allow	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 allow	advmod
5	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allow	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rest	mark
8	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 allow	xcomp
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 rest	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · do-support	the king	foreigners					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer foreigner=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	foreigners not said here			here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Her king forbids all strangers to sleep here

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 king	nmod:poss
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forbids	nsubj
3	forbids	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 strangers	det
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forbids	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forbids	advcl
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	present	Her king	all strangers					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer stranger=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	Her king not said here			here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The king banned strangers from sleeping there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banned	nsubj
3	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 sleeping	mark
6	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 banned	advcl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past	the king	strangers					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer stranger=Theme
2	sleep	gerund	the king not said here			there			vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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