Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 22: the…

Did the Princess actually help him or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: help · To what, where: him

This is test 4 · ★ 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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 help	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 help	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past · do-support	the Princess		him = he			actually property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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

Yeah, she swapped the potsherd and saved him, bare clever, and then told her dad everything

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swapped	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swapped	nsubj
4	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 potsherd	det
6	potsherd	potsherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swapped	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saved	cc
8	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swapped	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saved	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clever	punct
11	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clever	amod
12	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saved	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 told	advmod
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swapped	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dad	nmod:poss
18	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	iobj
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	swap	past	she	the potsherd			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potsherd=Theme
2	save	past	she not said here	him = he			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here	everything	her dad	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient everything=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she swapped the potsherd and saved him, bare clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swapped	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swapped	nsubj
4	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 potsherd	det
6	potsherd	potsherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swapped	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saved	cc
8	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swapped	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saved	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swapped	punct
11	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clever	amod
12	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swapped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	she	the potsherd					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potsherd=Theme
2	save	past	she not said here	him = he					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, she burned the potsherd, dead clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 burned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 potsherd	det
6	potsherd	potsherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clever	amod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 burned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	she	the potsherd					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent potsherd=Theme

Option 4

Nah, she didn't do nothing, the lad just got lucky and the potsherd fell on the floor

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lad	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lad	det
10	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	appos
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 got	advmod
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lad	acl:relcl
13	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 got	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fell	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 potsherd	det
16	potsherd	potsherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 floor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not do	past · do-support	she	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	get	past	the lad not said here	lucky		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lucky=Stimulus
3	fall	past	the potsherd		the floor	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location

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