Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks…

Wicked, how did the three robbers sit while the traders danced?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: three robbers, traders · What happens: sit, dance

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sit	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sit	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sit	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 robbers	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 robbers	nummod
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sit	nsubj
8	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wicked	parataxis
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 danced	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 traders	det
11	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 danced	nsubj
12	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sit	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · do-support	the three robbers						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dance	past	the traders						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

like stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	2 stones	case
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

like three monarchs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	INTJ	_	3 monarchs	discourse
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 monarchs	nummod
3	monarchs	monarch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

like three merchants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	INTJ	_	3 merchants	discourse
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 merchants	nummod
3	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

like three beggars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	INTJ	_	3 beggars	discourse
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 beggars	nummod
3	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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