Test 8 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking princ…

when the girls fell, who landed without a scratch, fam?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls · What happens: fall, land

This is test 8 · ★ 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 landed	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 landed	nsubj
7	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
8	without	without	ADP	_	10 scratch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 scratch	det
10	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 landed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fam	punct
12	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scratch	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the girls						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	land	past						without a scratch and fam	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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

the eldest, the queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 queen	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eldest	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the youngest, the one who fancied him and begged him to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 one	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fancied	nsubj
7	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fancied	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begged	cc
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fancied	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fancied	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stop	mark
13	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fancied	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fancy	past	the youngest one	him = he	tree rules
2	beg speech: request	past	the youngest one not said here		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	stop	to-infinitive	the youngest one not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the youngest, the one who fancied him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 youngest	appos
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fancied	nsubj
7	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	the one	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

the seventh girl, who was quite tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tall	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 tall	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tall	cop
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 tall	advmod
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the seventh girl					tall property	tree rules

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