Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu: Rasalu outwits Sarkap at…

Proper gutted, what did the potter want before selling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: potter · What happens: gut, do, want, sell

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 gutted	advmod
2	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 did	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gutted	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 potter	det
7	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 selling	mark
10	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 want	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	gut	participle		properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	past			tree rules
3	want	present	the potter		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	sell	gerund	the potter not said here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

To wait until the pots were burnt before he would name any price

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wait	mark
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 burnt	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pots	det
5	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burnt	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burnt	aux:pass
7	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wait	advcl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 name	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 name	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 name	aux
11	name	name	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wait	advcl
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 price	det
13	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 name	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	to-infinitive			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burnt	past · passive		the pots	tree rules
3	name	would	he	any price	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme

Option 2

To wait till the pots were burnt, then sell them to the king's men at double price

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wait	mark
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 burnt	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pots	det
5	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burnt	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burnt	aux:pass
7	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wait	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sell	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sell	advmod
10	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wait	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sell	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 men	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 men	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 king	case
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sell	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 price	case
18	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 price	amod
19	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	wait	to-infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burnt	past · passive	the pots				tree rules
3	sell	infinitive	pots = pot	the king's men	double price	then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme to man=Recipient at price=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To wait till the pots were burnt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wait	mark
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 burnt	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pots	det
5	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burnt	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burnt	aux:pass
7	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	to-infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burnt	past · passive		the pots					tree rules

Option 4

To be paid before the firing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 paid	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 firing	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 firing	det
6	firing	firing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive · passive					before the firing		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»

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