Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 22: the…

Why did the white Queen wanna kill him, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: white Queen · What happens: kill, innit · To what, where: him

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 kill	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kill	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Queen	amod
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kill	nsubj
6	wanna	wanna	PART	_	7 kill	mark
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kill	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 kill	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 kill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · do-support	the white Queen	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	innit	infinitive	the white Queen not said here						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

She was jealous of the Princess and well wicked, so she kept sending him off to die

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Princess	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 jealous	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wicked	cc
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 wicked	advmod
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jealous	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 kept	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	parataxis
14	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 kept	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sending	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	14 sending	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	18 die	mark
18	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sending	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		of the Princess; jealous property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here		well property	tree rules
3	keep	past	Princess			tree rules
4	send off	gerund	Princess not said here	him = he		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	die	to-infinitive	Princess not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She was jealous and well wicked, so she wanted him gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wicked	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wicked	advmod
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jealous	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wanted	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 wanted	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	obj
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		jealous property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here		well property	tree rules
3	want	past	she	him = he		tree rules
4	go not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She was jealous and well wicked, so she wanted him gone for good before the wedding

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wicked	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wicked	advmod
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jealous	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wanted	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 wanted	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	obj
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wanted	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 good	case
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gone	obl
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 wedding	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wedding	det
17	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jealous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		before the wedding	jealous property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here			well property	tree rules
3	want	past	she	him = he			tree rules
4	go not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here			for good	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary

Option 4

She was scared of him, so she wanted him dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 wanted	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	obj
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					of him = he; scared property	tree rules
2	want	past	she	him = he				dead property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

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