Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked int…

Lol, what was Lambikin's rhyme, like the thing he kept shouting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lambikin, thing · What happens: be, keep, shout · To what, where: rhyme, thing

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 rhyme	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rhyme	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 rhyme	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rhyme	cop
5	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rhyme	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Lambikin	case
7	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 thing	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rhyme	appos
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	acl:relcl
14	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 kept	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 rhyme	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		Lambikin's rhyme	tree rules
2	keep	past	Lambikin	the thing not said here	tree rules
3	shout speech: express	gerund	the thing 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

I'm off to Granny's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 off	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 off	cop
3	off	off	ADV	_	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Granny	case
5	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 off	obl
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Granny	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		Granny			off property	tree rules

Option 2

To grandma's farm I go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 farm	case
2	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 farm	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 grandma	case
4	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	I			grandma's farm			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"To Granny's house I go"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	5 house	case
3	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Granny	case
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	I			Granny's house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

Option 4

I'm off to my granny's house far away, tum-pa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 house	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 house	cop
3	off	off	ADV	_	8 house	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 granny	nmod:poss
6	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 granny	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 house	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pa	punct
12	tum	tum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pa	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 tum	punct
14	pa	pa	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					to my granny's house and tum pa; away, off property	tree rules

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