Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu: Rasalu outwits Sarkap at…

Wicked, what did the cat beg him for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: beg · To what, where: him

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 beg	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 beg	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beg	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beg	nsubj
7	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wicked	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beg	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	7 beg	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past · do-support	the cat		him = he				tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

To save her kittens from the kiln

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 kittens	nmod:poss
4	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 save	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 kiln	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kiln	det
7	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		her kittens		the kiln			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent kitten=Theme from kiln=Source

Option 2

To save her kittens from the kiln and give them milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 kittens	nmod:poss
4	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 save	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 kiln	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kiln	det
7	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 give	cc
9	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 save	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		her kittens		the kiln			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent kitten=Theme from kiln=Source
2	give	infinitive		milk	kittens = kitten				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient milk=Theme

Option 3

Her kittens' lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 kittens	nmod:poss
2	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lives	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 kittens	case
4	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

To feed her hungry kittens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kittens	nmod:poss
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kittens	amod
5	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive			her hungry kittens				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Recipient

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