Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl be…

Fr, was the fiddle thing just a random bamboo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: be · To what, where: fiddle thing

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 bamboo	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bamboo	det
9	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bamboo	amod
10	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fr	the fiddle thing				a random bamboo nmod	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nope, it was the drowned girl, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 girl	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 girl	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cap	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 cap	det
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the drowned girl and no cap					tree rules

Option 2

Nope, it was the drowned girl, no cap, singing from the tank

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 girl	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 girl	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cap	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 cap	det
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 singing	punct
12	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 girl	acl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 tank	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tank	det
15	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	drown	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the drowned girl and no cap		tree rules
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the drowned girl and no cap not said here		the tank	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nope, it was the drowned sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 sister	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sister	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sister	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sister	det
6	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the drowned sister					tree rules

Option 4

Nope, it was the drowned girl, no cap, the Bonga's sister

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 girl	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 girl	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cap	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 cap	det
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sister	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Bonga	det
13	Bonga	Bonga	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sister	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Bonga	case
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the drowned girl and no cap and the Bonga's sister					tree rules

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