Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab trick…
and the fakir was just a random dude in the road?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fakir · What happens: be · To what, where: random dude, road
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1826 «Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab tricks the crane, then Laili jumps into a 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dude | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fakir | det |
| 3 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dude | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dude | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 dude | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dude | det |
| 7 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dude | amod |
| 8 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dude | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 dude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the fakir | a random dude | the road | 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
nah, he was actually an angel, she just didn't clock it, so he told her the journey was far
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 angel | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 angel | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angel | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 angel | advmod |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 angel | det |
| 7 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 did | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angel | parataxis |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 clock | advmod |
| 13 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 clock | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 told | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angel | parataxis |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 journey | det |
| 21 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 far | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 far | cop |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 told | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a angel | actually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | past | angel | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not clock | clock | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | he | angel | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the journey | far property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, just some old bloke she met
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 bloke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bloke | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 bloke | advmod |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 bloke | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bloke | amod |
| 6 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bloke | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | she | some old bloke not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloke=Co-Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
nah, he was actually an angel, she just didn't clock it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 angel | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 angel | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angel | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 angel | advmod |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 angel | det |
| 7 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 did | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angel | parataxis |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 clock | advmod |
| 13 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a angel | actually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | past | angel | clock | tree rules |
Option 4
yeah, he was a normal old man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 man | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 man | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a normal old man | tree rules |
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