Test 1 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…

yo did the queens actually push her to bang the drum, fr?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo, queens · What happens: do, push, bang · To what, where: her, drum

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1844 «Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden in the dog and the cow, the Queens' plots» 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	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queens	det
4	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 push	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 push	advmod
6	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 push	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bang	mark
9	bang	bang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 push	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drum	det
11	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bang	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fr	punct
13	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drum	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	yo			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	push	present	the queens	her = she	actually property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	bang	to-infinitive	the queens not said here	the drum and fr		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the four other queens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 queens	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queens	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 queens	nummod
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 queens	amod
6	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

nah, she did it herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 did	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

nah, actually the king's whole court was pushing her to do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 pushing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 pushing	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 court	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 court	amod
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pushing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pushing	aux
10	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pushing	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pushing	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past · progressive	the king's whole court	her = she				actually property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive	the king's whole court not said here	court					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, all four queens and the nurse pushed her hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 pushed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 queens	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 queens	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 queens	nummod
5	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pushed	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nurse	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nurse	det
8	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 queens	conj
9	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pushed	obj
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 pushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	all four queens and the nurse	her = she				hard property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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