Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pome…

Who's the spy girl, the Prudhan's daughter?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: spy girl

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1822 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pomelo tree is cut down, the girls are left in the jungle, and Balna is turned into a dog» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 girl	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	compound
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 daughter	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prudhan	det
8	Prudhan	Prudhan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Prudhan	case
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 girl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the spy girl and the Prudhan's daughter					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

She follows the girls and reports everything to her mother the Prudhan's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 follows	nsubj
2	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 follows	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 reports	cc
6	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 girls	conj
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 girls	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 mother	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 follows	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prudhan	det
12	Prudhan	Prudhan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Prudhan	case
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mother	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	She	the girls and reports				to her mother the Prudhan's wife	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to mother=Trajectory

Option 2

She creeps out at night to watch the girls from the bushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 creeps	nsubj
2	creeps	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 creeps	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 creeps	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 watch	mark
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 creeps	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girls	det
9	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 watch	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 bushes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bushes	det
12	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 watch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep out	present	She				night		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	watch	to-infinitive	She not said here	the girls		the bushes			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She tells the Ranee lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Ranee	det
4	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lies	nsubj
5	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	She						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie	present	the Ranee						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She grasses to her mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grasses	nsubj
2	grasses	grass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 mum	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grasses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grass	present	She					to her mum	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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