Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic…

Why do the wives hate her so much, is it cos she's the boss?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: wives, she · What happens: hate, be · To what, where: her, it

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hate	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hate	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wives	det
4	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hate	nsubj
5	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hate	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	5 hate	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 it	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 it	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hate	obj
12	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	16 boss	case
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 boss	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 boss	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boss	det
16	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hate	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hate	present · do-support	the wives	her = she		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	is a	present		it		tree rules
3	is	present	she		cos the boss	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

Nah, cos she stays home all day and cooks while they go out to work

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stays	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 stays	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stays	nsubj
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 stays	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cooks	cc
10	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stays	conj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 go	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cooks	ccomp
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 work	mark
16	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	she	day	home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cook	present	she not said here			tree rules
3	go out	present	they		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work	to-infinitive	they not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, cos she's always singing songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 singing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 singing	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 singing	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 singing	aux
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 singing	advmod
7	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present · progressive	she	songs				always property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, cos she stays home and cooks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stays	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 stays	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stays	nsubj
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 stays	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cooks	cc
8	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stays	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	she					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cook	present	she not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nah, cos she gets all the good food and sleeps late every single morning

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 gets	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 food	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 food	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sleeps	cc
11	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gets	conj
12	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 sleeps	advmod
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 morning	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 morning	amod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleeps	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	she	all good food					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
2	sleep	present	she not said here				morning	late property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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