Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 22: the…

What's the deal with the pigeons, then?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1838 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 22: the lad wins the Jogi's cow and goes off to marry, but shoots pigeons on the way» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 pigeons	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pigeons	det
7	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deal	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the pigeons				then		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

He sells them and the white Queen keeps laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sells	nsubj
2	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sells	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 keeps	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Queen	amod
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 keeps	nsubj
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sells	conj
9	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sell	present	He	them = they	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	keep	present	the white Queen		tree rules
3	laugh	gerund	the white Queen not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He keeps shooting them on the palace roofs and the white Queen keeps tricking him into going further

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shooting	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shooting	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 roofs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roofs	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roofs	compound
8	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shooting	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 keeps	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Queen	det
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Queen	amod
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 keeps	nsubj
13	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
14	tricking	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 keeps	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tricking	obj
16	into	into	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 tricking	advcl
18	further	further	ADV	_	17 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	present	He				tree rules
2	shoot	gerund	He not said here	them = they	the palace roofs		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on roof=Destination
3	keep	present	the white Queen				tree rules
4	trick	gerund	the white Queen not said here	him = he			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	go	gerund	the white Queen not said here			further property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He keeps shooting them and the white Queen keeps tricking him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shooting	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shooting	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keeps	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Queen	amod
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 keeps	nsubj
9	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
10	tricking	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keeps	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tricking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	present	He		tree rules
2	shoot	gerund	He not said here	them = they	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	keep	present	the white Queen		tree rules
4	trick	gerund	the white Queen not said here	him = he	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He keeps shooting them for dinner and the white Queen keeps telling him to stop, but he never does

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shooting	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shooting	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shooting	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 keeps	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Queen	amod
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 keeps	nsubj
11	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
12	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 keeps	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 telling	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 stop	mark
15	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 telling	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 does	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 does	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 does	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 does	advmod
20	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	He				tree rules
2	shoot	gerund	He not said here	them = they		for dinner	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	keep	present	the white Queen				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	the white Queen not said here		him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	the white Queen not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	not do	present	he				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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