Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pome…

Was the tree chopped up root and branch, or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tree · What happens: be, chop up · To what, where: tree, root

This is test 9 · ★ 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	3 tree	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	nsubj
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 chopped	compound:prt
6	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 branch	cc
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 root	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 chopped	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the tree					tree rules
2	chop up	past	the tree	root and branch					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=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, every piece was dug up and the roots pulled out too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dug	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 piece	det
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dug	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dug	aux:pass
6	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 dug	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pulled	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roots	det
10	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pulled	nsubj:pass
11	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dug	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 pulled	compound:prt
13	too	too	ADV	_	11 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	past · passive		every piece					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	pull out	participle · passive		the roots					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, pulled up by the roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pulled	punct
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pulled	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 roots	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roots	det
7	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pulled	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	participle							vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, only the leaves gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 leaves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 leaves	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 leaves	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	participle		the leaves not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, chopped at the base

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 chopped	punct
3	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 base	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 base	det
6	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	participle						at the base	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at base=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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