Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked int…

Ngl, what did Balna want her sisters to do with the widow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Balna, sisters · What happens: want, do · To what, where: sisters

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sisters	nmod:poss
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 widow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 widow	det
13	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Balna	Balna's sisters				Ngl vocative	tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Balna's sisters not said here					with the widow	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Feed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Feed	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 2

Keep her outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	her = she				outside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

Ignore her now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Ignore	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	her = she			now		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Send her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Send	iobj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	imperative	you not said here		her = she			away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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