Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives t…
Bro, why did the Brahman open the cage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brahman · What happens: open · To what, where: cage
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1829 «Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives the wicked Raja, and the couple escape to King Dantal's palace» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 open | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 open | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 open | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Brahman | det |
| 6 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 open | nsubj |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cage | det |
| 9 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 open | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 open | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · do-support | the Brahman | the cage | Bro vocative | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cage=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
cuz the tiger was loud lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuz | cuz | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tiger | det |
| 3 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loud | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 loud | cop |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 cuz | ccomp |
| 6 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 cuz | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuz | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the tiger | loud property | tree rules |
Option 2
cuz he wanted to see the tiger get out and be free
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tiger | det |
| 7 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 free | cc |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 free | cop |
| 12 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 get | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | cuz | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | cuz not said here | the tiger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get out | infinitive | the tiger not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | the tiger not said here | free property | tree rules |
Option 3
cuz he felt kinda bad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 3 felt | advmod |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | cuz | bad, kinda property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
cuz the tiger begged him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuz | cuz | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | ccomp |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tiger | det |
| 3 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuz | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the tiger | him = he | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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