Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the pr…

Wait, the sisters hunt every day too?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sisters · What happens: wait, hunt

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hunt	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunt	nsubj
5	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunt	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	5 hunt	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hunt	present	the sisters				day		vn hunt-35.1 «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

Nah, only their husbands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 husbands	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 husbands	advmod
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husbands	nmod:poss
5	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, their husbands did the hunting every day, not them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 husbands	nmod:poss
4	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunting	det
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 them	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 them	advmod
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, their husbands did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 husbands	nmod:poss
4	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they hunted too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hunted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hunted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunted	nsubj
4	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 hunted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	they						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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