Test 13 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked int…

Wait, where did the sad Princesses go to cry, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sad Princesses · What happens: wait, go, cry

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princesses	det
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Princesses	amod
7	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cry	mark
10	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proper	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · do-support	the sad Princesses	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the sad Princesses not said here	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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

The village well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 village	det
2	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 village	advmod

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

Option 2

The grave in the forest behind the ruined old temple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grave	det
2	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 forest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grave	nmod
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 temple	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 temple	det
8	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 temple	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 temple	amod
10	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	participle							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Their mother's tomb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tomb	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mother	case
4	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The palace kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kitchen	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kitchen	compound
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1821-pg7128-part5/t13/