Test 1 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl be…

Yo, the bamboo was literally yelling at the Jogi, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bamboo · What happens: yell

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1825 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl becomes a bamboo fiddle that cooks for a chief's son, then the Cruel Crane tricks the fish» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 yelling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bamboo	det
4	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yelling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 yelling	aux
6	literally	literally	ADV	_	7 yelling	advmod
7	yelling	yell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 Jogi	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Jogi	det
10	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 yelling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yelling	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	7 yelling	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 yelling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past · progressive	the bamboo					at the Jogi; literally property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at jogi=Stimulus

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

Yep, it kept yelling cut here, cut there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 yelling	xcomp
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cut	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	parataxis
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	keep	past	it		tree rules
2	yell speech: express	gerund			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cut	participle		here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	cut	infinitive		there	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yep, it kept yelling cut here, cut there, all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 yelling	xcomp
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cut	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	parataxis
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 cut	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl:unmarked
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 day	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	keep	past	it		day	tree rules
2	yell speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cut	participle		here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	cut	infinitive		there		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yep, it kept yelling cut here, cut there, and never stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 yelling	xcomp
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cut	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	parataxis
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 cut	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stopped	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 stopped	advmod
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	keep	past	it		tree rules
2	yell speech: express	gerund			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cut	participle		here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	cut	infinitive		there	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	not stop	past			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Yep, it kept shouting orders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shouting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it						tree rules
2	shout speech: express	gerund		orders					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Topic

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