Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic…

Who's the Brahman who kicks his pot, the lazy one who daydreams?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brahman, lazy one · What happens: be, kick, daydream · To what, where: Brahman, pot

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1824 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic Fiddle: the Prince wins his parrot, Punchkin dies, and a greedy Brahman and a jealous sister-in-law are introduced» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 Brahman	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Brahman	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Brahman	det
4	Brahman	brahman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kicks	nsubj
6	kicks	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Brahman	acl:relcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pot	nmod:poss
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kicks	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Brahman	appos
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 daydreams	nsubj
14	daydreams	daydream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 one	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Brahman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the Brahman	tree rules
2	kick	present	the Brahman	his pot	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent pot=Patient
3	daydream	present	the lazy one		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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

Nah, the Brahman's clever son who went off to the forest to study

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Brahman	det
4	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Brahman	case
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 son	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 study	mark
15	study	study	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	the Brahman's clever son					to the forest	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	study	to-infinitive	the Brahman's clever son not said here						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, the poor boy Somasarman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 boy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	Somasarman	Somasarman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the miser called Svabhavakripana

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 miser	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 miser	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miser	det
4	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 miser	acl
6	Svabhavakripana	Svabhavakripana	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the miser not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, the miser called Svabhavakripana who always daydreams about gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 miser	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 miser	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miser	det
4	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 miser	acl
6	Svabhavakripana	Svabhavakripana	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 daydreams	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 daydreams	advmod
9	daydreams	daydream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 miser	acl:relcl
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daydreams	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the miser not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	daydream	present	the miser					about gold; always property	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about gold=Topic

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