Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman…

test: so the cat and dog just waited around?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: wait around · To what, where: test

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1833 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman fools the king with a lucky guess, and a kind young man buys a dog, a cat and a snake» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waited	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 waited	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waited	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dog	cc
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cat	conj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 waited	advmod
9	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	around	around	ADV	_	9 waited	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 waited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait around	past	the cat and dog	test				around property	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

yeah, cat fetched grub from houses while the dog guarded the gate all day

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	11 guarded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grub	punct
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grub	compound
4	fetched	fetch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grub	amod
5	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guarded	nsubj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 houses	case
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grub	nmod
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 guarded	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guarded	nsubj
11	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gate	det
13	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guarded	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guarded	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	participle							vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	guard	past	cat fetched grub from houses	the gate			day		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary

Option 2

nah, the dog chased the cat away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	nsubj
5	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 chased	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase away	past	the dog	the cat				away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, cat fetched grub from houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 grub	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cat	punct
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grub	compound
4	fetched	fetch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grub	amod
5	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 houses	case
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grub	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	participle							vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, cat and dog went off on their own and came back later with food

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dog	cc
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	conj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 came	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 food	case
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	cat and dog			cat's own			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on own=Location
2	come back	past	cat and dog not said here					with food; late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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