Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Gangazara, part 15: the goldsmith betr…

wait the snakes were killing people on purpose?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, snakes · What happens: wait, kill · To what, where: people, purpose

This is test 5 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snakes	det
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 killing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 killing	aux
5	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 killing	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 purpose	case
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 killing	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	past · progressive	the snakes	people		purpose			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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 · ✓ the right answer

fr, the serpent king told them to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	compound
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	6 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the serpent king	fr	them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2

yeah, the king sent them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 sent	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	past	the king	them = they					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

nah, the serpent king was tricked by the rats into sending them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	compound
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tricked	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tricked	aux:pass
7	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 rats	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rats	det
10	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tricked	obl
11	into	into	SCONJ	_	12 sending	mark
12	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 tricked	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sending	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 sending	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive	the rats	the serpent king					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	send out	gerund	the rats not said here	rats = rat					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

fr, the serpent king told them to, and the tigers went along with it too

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	compound
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	6 told	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tigers	det
12	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	obl
17	too	too	ADV	_	13 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the serpent king	fr	them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	go along	past	the tigers					with fr; along property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary

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