Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens: the lad comes…

Why was the old hag so scared of her daughter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old hag · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hag	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hag	amod
5	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 scared	advmod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hag	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 daughter	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nmod:poss
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old hag					why property	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 just grumpy

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	4 grumpy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grumpy	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 grumpy	advmod
4	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					grumpy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cause the Princess was a proper clever clogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 clogs	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clogs	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 clogs	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clogs	amod
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clogs	amod
8	clogs	clog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cause	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is a	past	the Princess	a proper clever clogs					tree rules

Option 3

Cause the Princess had the King's favour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 favour	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 King	case
8	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cause	infinitive	the Princess not said here		vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	have	past	the Princess	the King's favour	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Patient
3	favour		the King		nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Cause the Princess knew all her secrets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 secrets	det:predet
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 secrets	nmod:poss
7	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive	the Princess not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	know	past	the Princess	Princess's secrets					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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