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

Was Balna proper brave or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Balna · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brave	cop
2	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brave	nsubj
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brave	amod
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 what	cc
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 brave	conj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 brave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Balna					brave property	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

She told him no

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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	She		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

She stayed with her baby boy

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 boy	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boy	nmod:poss
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	compound
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	She					with her baby boy	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with boy=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She told him to get lost

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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	She	him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	lose	participle	She not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She was scared

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					scared property	tree rules

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