Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, p…
the dog said "let me have it or I will kill you", so who was actually being sus here?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: say, let, have, kill, be · To what, where: dog, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 kill | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 kill | aux |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sus | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 sus | advmod |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sus | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sus | cop |
| 19 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 21 sus | advmod |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sus | cop |
| 21 | sus | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 sus | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | the dog = dog | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | infinitive | the dog = dog not said here | dog | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | future | the dog = dog | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | here | actually, suspect property | 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
the kite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kite | det |
| 2 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
kite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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