Test 13 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens: the lad comes…

Mate, did the Princess actually save her husband's life, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do · To what, where: Princess

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1839 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens: the lad comes back to life, and the wicked witch is punished» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
7	save	save	ADP	_	11 life	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 life	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 husband	case
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nah	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 nah	cc
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the Princess				save Mate's husband's life; actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality

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

Yeah, she sorted the whole thing out and made the witch pay for it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sorted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sorted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sorted	nsubj
4	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorted	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	4 sorted	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sorted	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witch	det
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sort out	past	she	the whole thing		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	make	past	she not said here	the witch		tree rules
3	pay	infinitive	the witch not said here		for thing	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she sorted the whole thing out with a clever swap of potsherds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sorted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sorted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sorted	nsubj
4	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorted	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	4 sorted	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 swap	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 swap	det
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 swap	amod
12	swap	swap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorted	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 potsherds	case
14	potsherds	potsherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 swap	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past	she	the whole thing				with a clever swap of potsherds	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	swap			potsherds					nom swap «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she sorted the whole thing out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sorted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sorted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sorted	nsubj
4	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorted	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	4 sorted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past	she	the whole thing					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, she did, with a clever trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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