Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl be…

Ok but why did the brothers start crying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: start, cry

This is test 7 · ★ 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	INTJ	_	7 start	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 start	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 start	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brothers	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 start	nsubj
7	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 start	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	the brothers						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the brothers not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The fiddle sounded like it was wailing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fiddle	det
2	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounded	nsubj
3	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 wailing	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wailing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wailing	aux
7	wailing	wail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sounded	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	the fiddle						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	wail	past · progressive	fiddle						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The tune sounded very happy to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tune	det
2	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounded	nsubj
3	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sounded	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	the tune					happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

The fiddle sounded like someone sobbing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fiddle	det
2	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fiddle	acl
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 sobbing	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 sobbing	compound
6	sobbing	sobbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	participle		the fiddle not said here				like someone sobbing	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

They were tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					tired property	tree rules

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