Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens: the lad comes…

Why did the Queens throw a massive feast for their son's wedding?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queens, son · What happens: throw, wed · To what, where: massive feast

This is test 9 · ★ 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=Int	5 throw	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Queens	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queens	det
4	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 throw	nsubj
5	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 feast	det
7	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feast	amod
8	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 wedding	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wedding	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 son	case
13	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 throw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	present	the Queens	a massive feast				for Queens's son's wedding	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
2	wed		Queens's son						nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent

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

Cause the King had asked them to

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 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	aux
5	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Cause	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	1 Cause	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	the King		them = they				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2

They got loads of rich from the rice and their son's bride was lovely

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rich	case
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loads	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 rice	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rice	det
8	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lovely	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bride	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 son	case
13	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lovely	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lovely	cop
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They	loads of rich		the rice			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent load=Theme from rice=Source
2	is	past	loads's son's bride					lovely property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They got loads of rich from the rice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rich	case
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loads	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 rice	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rice	det
8	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They	loads of rich		the rice			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent load=Theme from rice=Source

Option 4

Cause the rice was finally ready

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 rice	det
3	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ready	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	cop
5	finally	finally	ADV	_	6 ready	advmod
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cause	ccomp

#	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	past	the rice					finally, ready property	tree rules

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