Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a…

So the snake king, whose son was he again?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake king · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 was	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 king	compound
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 king	conj
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 was	nsubj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 was	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the snake king and the snake king and the snake king's son's son				again		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Kashyapa's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kashyapa	Kashyapa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kashyapa	case

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Adisesha's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adisesha	Adisesha	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Adisesha	case

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A son of the mighty king of the sea serpents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 king	amod
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 son	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 serpents	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 serpents	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 serpents	compound
10	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 king	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The son of a great sage named Kashyapa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 sage	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sage	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sage	amod
6	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 son	nmod
7	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 son	acl
8	Kashyapa	Kashyapa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 named	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		the son of a great sage not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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/1830-pg7128-part14/t3/