Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu: Rasalu outwits Sarkap at…

Is it true the dice were made from dead men's bones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, make · To what, where: dice, bones

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dice	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dice	det
5	dice	die	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	12 bones	case
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bones	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 men	case
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					true property	tree rules
2	make	past · passive		the dice		dead men's bones			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from bone=Material

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

Nah, that's just a myth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 myth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 myth	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 myth	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 myth	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 myth	det
7	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a myth					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, that's the creepy bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 bit	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the creepy bit					tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, that's the creepy bit, and the rat was in on it too

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 bit	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 it	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 it	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rat	det
11	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 it	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 it	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 it	case
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bit	nmod
16	too	too	ADV	_	7 bit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the creepy bit					tree rules
2	is	past	the rat			rat			tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, that's the gold bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 bit	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	compound
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the gold bit					tree rules

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