Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl be…
Ok last one, where did the crane eat the fish?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crane · What happens: eat · To what, where: fish
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Ok | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 eat | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eat | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crane | det |
| 8 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fish | det |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · do-support | the crane | the fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
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
In a Varana tree by the other pond where the crane nested
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 3 | Varana | Varana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 pond | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pond | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pond | amod |
| 8 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | nmod |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 nested | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crane | det |
| 11 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nested | nsubj |
| 12 | nested | nest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 pond | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nest | participle | the crane | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
In a Varana tree by the other pond, far from the village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 3 | Varana | Varana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 pond | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pond | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pond | amod |
| 8 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 village | punct |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 village | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 village | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 village | det |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In a mango tree near the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 3 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
In a Varana tree by the other pond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 3 | Varana | Varana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 pond | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pond | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pond | amod |
| 8 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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