Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pome…

Did the Princesses ever eat the Ranee's dinner, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princesses · What happens: eat · To what, where: dinner

This is test 4 · ★ 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princesses	det
3	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ranee	det
7	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dinner	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Ranee	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	5 eat	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · do-support	the Princesses	the Ranee's dinner			ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

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

Yeah, most nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nights	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nights	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 nights	amod
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they ate it every night after the Ranee left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl:unmarked
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Ranee	det
10	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 left	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	they	it			night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	leave	past	the Ranee						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, they only ate it on the days the Ranee was ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ranee	det
11	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ill	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ill	cop
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	they	it			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	past	the Ranee	the days not said here				ill property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, never once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 once	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 once	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root

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

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