Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks…

Mate, why didn't the king just send guards to nab him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: send, nab · To what, where: guards, Mate

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1840 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks the pitchers at the well» 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 why	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 king	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 send	advmod
9	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 king	acl:relcl
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 send	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 nab	mark
12	nab	nab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 send	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 nab	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	the king not said here	guards					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme
2	nab	to-infinitive	the king not said here	Mate					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

he had no men left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 men	det
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 men	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no men					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	leave	participle		no men not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the road was too long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

he was too sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 sick	advmod
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos he feared he'd die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feared	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 die	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 die	aux
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	cos						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	die	would	cos						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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