Test 7 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking princ…

did the prince cut the ropes or did he chicken out?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: cut, do out · To what, where: ropes, chicken

This is test 7 · ★ 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	4 cut	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ropes	det
6	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 did	cc
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
10	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	8 did	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past · do-support	the prince	the ropes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Product
2	do out	past	prince	chicken					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Eventuality

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 let them hang loose down

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 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	loose	loose	ADV	_	6 down	advmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 hang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	he	them = they					tree rules
2	hang	infinitive	them = they not said here					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he chickened out

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 chickened	nsubj
2	chickened	chicken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 chickened	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chicken out	past	he						vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he untied them with his hands

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 untied	nsubj
2	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 untied	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 untied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	untie	past	he	them = they				with his hands	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he cut them with his sword

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 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sword	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sword	nmod:poss
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	he	them = they				with his sword	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with sword=Instrument

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