Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the pr…
Did the brothers-in-law get roasted?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: roast · To what, where: brothers
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 roasted | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 roasted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 law | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 law | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brothers | conj |
| 8 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 roasted | aux:pass |
| 9 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 roasted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | past · passive · do-support | the brothers and law | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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
Yep, burned
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 3 burned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, they got branded hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 branded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 branded | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 branded | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 branded | aux:pass |
| 5 | branded | brand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 branded | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brand | past · passive | they | hard property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they got burned bad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 burned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 burned | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burned | aux:pass |
| 5 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 burned | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · passive | they | bad property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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