Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl be…

Be real, why was the girl cooking for him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: girl cooking

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cooking	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 cooking	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cooking	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cooking	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cooking	compound
8	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 real	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cooking	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					real property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the girl cooking				for him = he	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

She was into him, obviously, from the first day he arrived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 him	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 him	cop
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 obviously	punct
6	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	4 him	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 him	obl:unmarked
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 arrived	nsubj
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 day	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She				day	into him = he	tree rules
2	arrive	past	he	the first day not said here					tree rules

Option 2

She was into him, obviously, and wanted to be his wife someday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 him	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 him	cop
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
6	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	9 wanted	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	14 someday	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 someday	cop
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 someday	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 someday	compound
14	someday	someday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		into him = he	tree rules
2	want	past			obviously property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive		his wife someday		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She was into him, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 him	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 him	cop
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 him	punct
6	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	4 him	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					into him = he; obviously property	tree rules

Option 4

She had feelings for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	feelings				for him = he	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient

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