Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the pr…
Why's her hubby never out hunting?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hubby · What happens: not be
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | 7 hunting | advmod |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunting | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hubby | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hubby | hubby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunting | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 hunting | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 hunting | advmod |
| 7 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 hunting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | her hubby | hunt, out property | tree rules |
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's just chilling at home since he's got no bow or horse
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 | 4 chilling | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chilling | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 chilling | advmod |
| 4 | chilling | chill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chilling | obl |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 got | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | aux |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 chilling | ccomp |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 bow | det |
| 12 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 horse | cc |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bow | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | present · progressive | He | home | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present · passive | he | no bow or horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bow=Stimulus |
Option 2
He's just resting now
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 | 4 resting | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 resting | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 resting | advmod |
| 4 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 resting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present · progressive | He | now | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He's just chilling at home
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 | 4 chilling | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chilling | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 chilling | advmod |
| 4 | chilling | chill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chilling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | present · progressive | He | home | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
He's chilling, not hunting at all
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 | 3 chilling | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chilling | aux |
| 3 | chilling | chill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hunting | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hunting | advmod |
| 6 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 chilling | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 hunting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | present · progressive | He | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not hunt | gerund | He not said here | all | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location |
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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