Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives t…

Ngl, what did the pipal tree say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	pipal	pipal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Ngl						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

don't whimper, be a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 whimper	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 whimper	advmod
3	whimper	whimper	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whimper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not whimper	imperative · do-support	you not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	infinitive		a man					tree rules

Option 2

be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 be	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

stop crying, mate, pls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 stop	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crying	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 stop	punct
6	pls	pls	INTJ	_	1 stop	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	you not said here					mate vocative	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

don't whimper, be a man, and go talk to the Brahman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 whimper	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 whimper	advmod
3	whimper	whimper	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whimper	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 whimper	conj
11	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Brahman	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Brahman	det
14	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not whimper	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	infinitive		a man		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	you not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	talk	infinitive	you not said here		to the Brahman	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to brahman=Co-Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1829-pg7128-part13/t7/