Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the pr…

Why'd the six guys agree to that?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: six guys · What happens: agree

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1846 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the prince turns handsome, tricks his brothers-in-law and is refused at the gate» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 agree	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 agree	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guys	det
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 guys	nummod
5	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 agree	nsubj
6	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 agree	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	would	the six guys					to that	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: 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

They wanted food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They figured clothes would hide it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 figured	nsubj
2	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 hide	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hide	aux
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 figured	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure	past	They						tree rules
2	hide	would	clothes	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

They were hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					hungry property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They thought clothes would cover it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 cover	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cover	aux
5	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cover	would	clothes	it					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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