Test 8 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, pa…

yaar, why couldn't the King punish the sepoys?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: not punish · To what, where: sepoys

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» 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	yaar	yaar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yaar	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 punish	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 punish	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 punish	nsubj
8	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sepoys	det
10	sepoys	sepoy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 punish	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not punish	could	the King	the sepoys					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sepoy=Patient

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

he let the horse escape himself and blamed no one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 escape	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blamed	cc
8	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blamed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	past	he	the horse	tree rules
2	escape	infinitive	the horse not said here	horse	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Initial_Location
3	blame	past	he not said here	no one	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he let the horse escape himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 escape	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	he	the horse					tree rules
2	escape	infinitive	the horse not said here	horse					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Initial_Location

Option 3

the horse ran off fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADV	_	3 ran	compound:prt
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the horse					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the sepoys had fled already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sepoys	det
2	sepoys	sepoy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fled	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fled	aux
4	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	already	already	ADV	_	4 fled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past · perfect · passive		the sepoys					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location

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