Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 22: the…

Did the demons attack him or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: demons · What happens: attack · To what, where: him

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 attack	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 demons	det
3	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 attack	nsubj
4	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 attack	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 attack	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 attack	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	past · do-support	the demons	him = he					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, he just whistled and walked straight through them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 whistled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 whistled	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 whistled	advmod
5	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walked	cc
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 whistled	conj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 them	advmod
9	through	through	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	past	he not said here					through them = they	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory

Option 2

Nope, he just whistled and walked straight through them while they bowed to him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 whistled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 whistled	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 whistled	advmod
5	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walked	cc
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 whistled	conj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 them	advmod
9	through	through	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walked	obl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 bowed	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bowed	nsubj
13	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 whistled	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	he			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	past	he not said here		through them = they	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory
3	bow	past	they	him = he		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he fought them all off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 off	advmod
7	off	off	ADV	_	4 fought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	he	them = they				off property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Option 4

Yeah, they attacked him at the gate, but he whistled and walked straight through them with his bow

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 attacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 attacked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 attacked	nsubj
4	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 attacked	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attacked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whistled	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 whistled	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 whistled	nsubj
12	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 attacked	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 walked	cc
14	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 attacked	conj
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	17 them	advmod
16	through	through	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 walked	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 bow	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bow	nmod:poss
20	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attack	past	they	him = he	the gate		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	whistle	past	he				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	walk	past	they not said here			through them = they; with his bow	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory

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