Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked int…

Mate, why did the Raja hide and spy on his girls?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Raja hide

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1821 «Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked into a drum and eaten, then the Raja's daughters are starved by a cruel stepmother» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hide	det
6	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hide	compound
7	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spy	cc
9	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 girls	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 girls	nmod:poss
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hide	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Raja hide and spy				on his girls	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Eventuality

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

To see how the mud got in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 got	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mud	det
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	get in	past	the mud						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

To find out who spoils food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 find	compound:prt
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 spoils	nsubj
5	spoils	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 find	ccomp
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoils	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	to-infinitive							vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spoil	present		food					tree rules

Option 3

Because he suspects his daughters are secretly plotting to poison him and take the kingdom

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 suspects	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 suspects	nsubj
3	suspects	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 plotting	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughters	nmod:poss
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 suspects	obj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 plotting	aux
7	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	8 plotting	advmod
8	plotting	plot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 poison	mark
10	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 plotting	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 poison	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 take	cc
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 poison	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kingdom	det
15	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suspect	present	he	his daughters		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent daughter=Attribute
2	plot	present · progressive			secretly property	tree rules
3	poison	to-infinitive		him = he		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	take	infinitive		the kingdom		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme

Option 4

To make sure his daughters were not wasting royal rice on the cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughters	nmod:poss
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wasting	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wasting	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 wasting	advmod
8	wasting	waste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sure	ccomp
9	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rice	amod
10	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wasting	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 cooking	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cooking	det
13	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wasting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive						sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	not waste	past · progressive	his daughters	royal rice				on the cooking goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rice=Asset on cooking=Goal

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