Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins he…
Did the tigers actually beat the demons, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tigers · What happens: beat · To what, where: demons
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beat | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tigers | det |
| 3 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 beat | advmod |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 demons | det |
| 7 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beat | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nah | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 nah | cc |
| 10 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 beat | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 beat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past · do-support | the tigers | the demons | actually property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location demon=Theme |
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, they killed them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 killed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | they | them = they | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 2
no, they fled from them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 fled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fled | nsubj |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | they | from them = they | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location |
Option 3
yeah, they killed them both with their claws
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 killed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | obj |
| 6 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 killed | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 claws | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 claws | nmod:poss |
| 9 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 killed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | they | them = they | with their claws; both property | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with claw=Instrument |
Option 4
yeah, they lost the fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fight | det |
| 6 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | they | the fight | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
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