Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pome…

Did Balna's husband ever come back, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband · What happens: come back

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
2	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 husband	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Balna	case
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	6 come	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past · do-support	Balna's husband				ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yeah, he came back to the jungle to look for her one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 jungle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jungle	det
8	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 day	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 day	nmod:poss
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	nummod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	he			the jungle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jungle=Initial_Location
2	look	to-infinitive	he not said here				day		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nah, he went off to fight in a distant war and never returned to her

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fight	mark
7	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 war	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 war	det
10	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 war	amod
11	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 returned	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 returned	advmod
14	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 returned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	go off	past	he			tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	he not said here		a distant war	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not return	past	he not said here	her = she		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result

Option 3

Yeah, he came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he never came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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