Test 13 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, p…

so was the king a talker before?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: king

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1835 «Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, part 19: the cat wins back the ring, and the Brahman's wife sets out for the king» 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	_	4 king	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 king	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 talker	det
6	talker	talker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 before	nsubj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 king	acl:relcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 king	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the king					tree rules

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

no, he only started talking after the future Buddha came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 started	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 started	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 started	advmod
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 came	csubj
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 future	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 future	det
9	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talking	obl
10	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 future	appos
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 started	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	start	past	he		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund		after the future	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	talking		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yes, he never let anyone speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 let	obj
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	past	he	anyone					tree rules
2	speak speech: other	infinitive	anyone not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

no, he listened to everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 listened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 listened	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 listened	nsubj
4	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 listened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	he					to everyone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to everyone=Theme

Option 4

yes, he talked so much that nobody could ever get a word in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 talked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	nsubj
4	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 talked	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 get	mark
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 get	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 get	advmod
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 talked	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	11 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	he						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	could	nobody	a word			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

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.

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