Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked int…

Why did the Raja's daughters cook their own dinner, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughters, you · What happens: do, cook, innit · To what, where: own dinner

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 cook	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Raja	det
4	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 daughters	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Raja	case
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cook	nsubj
7	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 innit	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dinner	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dinner	amod
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cook	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cook	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	the Raja's daughters not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cook	present	the Raja's daughters	daughters's own dinner	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
3	innit	imperative	you not said here		tree rules

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

Because their father had ordered them to learn cooking as a punishment for disobedience

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 ordered	mark
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ordered	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ordered	aux
5	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ordered	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 learn	mark
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ordered	xcomp
9	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learn	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 punishment	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 punishment	det
12	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learn	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 disobedience	case
14	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past · perfect	their father		them = they				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	their father not said here	cooking				as a punishment; for disobedience	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Topic

Option 2

Because the old cook had died and the new servants would not work at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 died	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cook	amod
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	aux
6	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 work	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servants	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 servants	amod
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 work	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 work	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 work	advmod
13	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 died	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	the old cook						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not work	would	the new servants					at all	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme

Option 3

To avoid being robbed by thieves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	4 robbed	mark
2	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 robbed	aux
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 robbed	aux:pass
4	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 thieves	case
6	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 robbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	to-infinitive · passive	thieves						vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To dodge being poisoned by enemies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dodge	mark
2	dodge	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 poisoned	csubj:pass
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 poisoned	aux:pass
4	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 enemies	case
6	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poisoned	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	to-infinitive							vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	poison	gerund · passive	enemies						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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