Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins he…

Was the king's court-house like a proper courtroom, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: court house

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1820 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins her with ants, tigers, a flying bed and a hair» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 house	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 court	punct
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 courtroom	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 courtroom	det
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 courtroom	amod
11	courtroom	courtroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bro	punct
13	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 courtroom	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 house	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the king's court house				like a proper courtroom and bro	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

yeah, he sat there to hear people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	advcl
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	to-infinitive	he not said here	people					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

Option 2

yeah, he sat there to hear people's complaints each morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	advcl
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 complaints	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 people	case
10	complaints	complaint	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hear	obj
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	he		there	morning	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	to-infinitive	he not said here	people's complaints			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer complaint=Stimulus
3	complain		people				nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

yeah, he sat there to hear people and to punish thieves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	advcl
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hear	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 punish	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 punish	mark
11	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hear	conj
12	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	he		there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	to-infinitive	he not said here	people		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
3	punish	to-infinitive	he not said here	thieves		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Patient

Option 4

yeah, he judged the disputes there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 judged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 judged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 judged	nsubj
4	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 disputes	det
6	disputes	dispute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 judged	obj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 judged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	past	he	the disputes		there			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent dispute=Value

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