Test 9 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the p…

Real talk, why was the potter crying and laughing at the same time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: potter · What happens: be, cry, laugh · To what, where: potter

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1836 «Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the prince buys wisdom, outwits a host, and wins a throne» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 potter	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 potter	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 potter	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 potter	det
7	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
8	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 potter	acl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laughing	cc
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 crying	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laughing	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past		the potter		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the potter not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	gerund	the potter not said here		time	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

His son was forced to marry the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forced	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forced	aux:pass
4	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 marry	mark
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forced	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	past · passive		His son					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	marry	to-infinitive	His son not said here	the princess					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His son had to marry the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 marry	mark
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	His son						tree rules
2	marry	to-infinitive	His son not said here	the princess					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

Option 3

His daughter had to marry a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 marry	mark
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	His daughter						tree rules
2	marry	to-infinitive	His daughter not said here	a king					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient

Option 4

His son had to marry the princess and face death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 marry	mark
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marry	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 death	cc
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 death	compound
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 princess	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	His son						tree rules
2	marry	to-infinitive	His son not said here	the princess and face death					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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