Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns th…

Bruh, what did Balna say she'd do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Balna · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1823 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns the Magician's secret and sets out for the parrot» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Balna						tree rules
2	do	would	Balna						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Pretend she'd marry him to buy time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pretend	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 marry	xcomp
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	marry	would	she	him = he		tree rules
3	buy	to-infinitive	she not said here		time	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Promise to wed him so she could wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 wed	mark
3	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Promise	acl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wed	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 wait	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wait	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 wait	aux
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	to-infinitive		him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	wait	could	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Run away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Say she'd marry him to gain time later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 gain	mark
7	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 marry	xcomp
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gain	obj
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 gain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry	would	she	him = he			tree rules
3	gain	to-infinitive	she not said here		time	late property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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