Test 13 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins he…

Does the Lambikin bit start, or is it still Labam, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: start · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Lambikin bit start, Labam

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 start	det
3	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 start	compound
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	compound
5	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Does	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Labam	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 Labam	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Labam	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 Labam	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 Labam	advmod
11	Labam	Labam	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Does	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Labam	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Does	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the Lambikin bit start					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Eventuality
2	is a	present	start	Labam			still		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

Lambikin starts at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 end	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	Lambikin				at the end		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

it's Labam now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 Labam	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Labam	cop
3	Labam	Labam	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 Labam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	Labam			now		tree rules

Option 3

Labam finishes near the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Labam	Labam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 finishes	nsubj
2	finishes	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 end	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finishes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	present	Labam				near the end		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

still Labam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	still	still	ADV	_	2 Labam	advmod
2	Labam	Labam	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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