Test 1 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu: Rasalu outwits Sarkap at…

Yo, did Rasalu really smash all them seventy drums?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rasalu · What happens: do, smash · To what, where: them

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1842 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu: Rasalu outwits Sarkap at chaupur and wins Kokilan» 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	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smash	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 smash	advmod
6	smash	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 them	reparandum
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smash	obl
9	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 drums	nummod
10	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smash	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	smash	present	Rasalu	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme

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

Nah, he only bashed a few

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 bashed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bashed	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 bashed	advmod
5	bashed	bash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 few	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bashed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bash	past	he	a few					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he didn't touch them, the king's lads did it all

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 touch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touch	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touch	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 touch	advmod
6	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lads	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touch	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	past · do-support	he	them = they					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
2	do	past	the king's lads	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he bashed every single one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bashed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bashed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bashed	nsubj
4	bashed	bash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bashed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bash	past	he	every single one					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 4

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

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