Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic…

What's he going to do with the goats, like, sell them for cash?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: go, do, sell · To what, where: goats

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 going	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sell	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 goats	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 goats	det
9	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sell	punct
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 sell	mark
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
13	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 going	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sell	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 cash	case
16	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sell	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive		with the goats	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sell	infinitive	goats = goat	for cash	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme for cash=Asset

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he wants to buy cows with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 buy	mark
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buy	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	cows				with cows = cow	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he'll sell them for coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sell	aux
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 coins	case
8	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	future	he	them = they				for coins	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme for coin=Asset

Option 3

Nah, he wants to buy a whole herd of cows and some horses with them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 buy	mark
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 herd	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 herd	amod
9	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 cows	case
11	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 herd	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 horses	cc
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 horses	det
14	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cows	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	a whole herd of cows and some horses				with horses = horse	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he'll swap them for a big field of rice and then buy cows

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swap	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swap	aux
5	swap	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swap	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 field	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 field	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 field	amod
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swap	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 rice	case
12	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 field	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 buy	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 buy	advmod
15	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 swap	conj
16	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	future	he	them = they				for a big field of rice	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme for field=Co-Theme
2	buy	infinitive	he not said here	cows			then		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

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