Test 11 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking princ…
did the youngest girl try to stop him or just watch?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youngest girl · What happens: try, stop, watch · To what, where: him
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 try | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 try | nsubj |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stop | mark |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stop | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 watch | cc |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 watch | advmod |
| 11 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stop | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · do-support | the youngest girl | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the youngest girl not said here | him = he | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | the youngest girl not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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
she laughed at the prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laughed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | she | at the prince | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
she tried to warn him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 warn | mark |
| 4 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 warn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | she | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | him = he | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
Option 3
she ran off to tell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ran | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | she | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
no, she left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 left | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | she | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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