Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Gangazara, part 15: the goldsmith betr…

why did they cut his hair before seeing his face?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: cut, see · To what, where: hair, face

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1831 «Indian Fairy Tales, Gangazara, part 15: the goldsmith betrays Gangazara, and the animal kings try to save him from the dungeon» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 cut	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 seeing	mark
8	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cut	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 face	nmod:poss
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seeing	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past · do-support	they	his hair					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product
2	see	gerund	they not said here	his face					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

it was so long and messy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 messy	cc
6	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					long property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it covered his whole face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 covered	nsubj
2	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 face	amod
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 covered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	it	his whole face					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination

Option 3

it was so long and messy that nobody could tell whether he was a man

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 messy	cc
6	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 tell	mark
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 tell	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 long	advcl
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 man	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 man	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 man	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		long property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	could	nobody			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	he	a man		tree rules

Option 4

the guards thought his hair was a disguise hiding a rebel prince underneath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guards	det
2	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hair	nmod:poss
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disguise	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 disguise	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 disguise	det
8	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
9	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 disguise	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 prince	det
11	rebel	rebel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prince	compound
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hiding	obj
13	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	9 hiding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the guards			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	his hair	a disguise		tree rules
3	hide	gerund	a disguise not said here	a rebel prince	underneath property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient

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