Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens: the lad comes…
Were those voices in the rice field actually nice or dodgy?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: voices · What happens: be · To what, where: rice field
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nice | cop |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 voices | det |
| 3 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nice | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 field | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 field | det |
| 6 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 field | compound |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nice | obl |
| 8 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 nice | advmod |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 dodgy | cc |
| 11 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nice | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 nice | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that voices | the rice field | actually, nice property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | that voices 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
Nice, they were just singing a happy tune for him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tune | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 singing | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 singing | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 singing | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 singing | advmod |
| 6 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tune | amod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tune | det |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tune | amod |
| 9 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tune | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | they | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Dodgy, they were a bunch of demons playing tricks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bunch | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dodgy | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bunch | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bunch | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bunch | det |
| 6 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 demons | case |
| 8 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bunch | nmod |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 demons | acl |
| 10 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 playing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | they | a Dodgy bunch | of demons | tree rules | |||
| 2 | play | gerund | demons not said here | tricks | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Dodgy, they were trying to get him to look back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trying | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 trying | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trying | aux |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Dodgy | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trying | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | xcomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 look | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · progressive | they | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look back | to-infinitive | him = he not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Dodgy, they were trying to get him to look back and fall for it
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trying | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 trying | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trying | aux |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Dodgy | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trying | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | xcomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 look | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fall | cc |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fall | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · progressive | they | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look back | to-infinitive | him = he not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | fall | infinitive | they not said here | for it | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for it=Theme |
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