Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl be…

Wait, what did she call him after she got caught?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: wait, call, catch · To what, where: him, she · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 call	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 call	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 call	obj
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 caught	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caught	nsubj:pass
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 caught	aux:pass
11	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 call	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	past · do-support	she	him = he	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Result
3	catch	past · passive		she	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

A Dom or a Hadi, and she said she was not marrying him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Dom	det
2	Dom	Dom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 Hadi	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Hadi	det
5	Hadi	Hadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Dom	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 marrying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 marrying	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 marrying	advmod
13	marrying	marry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 marrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a Dom or a Hadi						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not marry	past · progressive	she	him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

A Dom or Hadi, so refused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Dom	det
2	Dom	Dom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 refused	nsubj:pass
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 Hadi	cc
4	Hadi	Hadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Dom	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 refused	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 refused	advmod
7	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	participle · passive		a Dom or Hadi					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A Dom or a Hadi, not marrying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Dom	det
2	Dom	Dom	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 Hadi	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Hadi	det
5	Hadi	Hadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Dom	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 marrying	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 marrying	advmod
8	marrying	marry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Dom	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not marry	gerund							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

A Hadi, never marrying him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Hadi	det
2	Hadi	Hadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 marrying	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hadi	punct
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 marrying	advmod
5	marrying	marry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not marry	gerund	a Hadi	him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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