Test 14 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking princ…

wait, did the prince really go and laugh at the girls?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, go, laugh · To what, where: prince

This is test 14 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laugh	cc
9	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 go	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 girls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girls	det
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laugh	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here	the prince		tree rules
3	go	present	you not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	present	you not said here		at the girls	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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

he never laughed at any of them

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	3 laughed	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 laughed	advmod
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 any	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 laughed	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 any	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not laugh	past	he			any			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he laughed and said there were seventy

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	seventy	seventy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	laugh	past	he		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	past	seventy	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he laughed and said there were seventy of them, all fools

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 were	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seventy	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fools	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 fools	det
12	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	laugh	past	he	all fools		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	past	seventy of them		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he said that they were far too many

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 many	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 many	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 many	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 many	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					far, many property	tree rules

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