Test 1 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking princ…

yo, why did the dad just turn his back on the prince, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: turn, innit · To what, where: back

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1841 «Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking prince, a talking corpse, a clever cricket» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 turn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 turn	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turn	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dad	det
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 turn	advmod
8	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 back	nmod:poss
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 prince	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 turn	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · do-support		his back				on the prince	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2	innit	infinitive							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

cos he was ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ill	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				ill property	tree rules

Option 2

cos he was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				tired property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cos he was scared outta his wits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outta	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 outta	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 outta	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 outta	amod
5	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wits	nmod:poss
7	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 outta	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cos	scared outta				his wits nmod	tree rules

Option 4

because he had no more money left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 money	det
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 money	amod
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 money	acl

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

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