Test 1 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the que…

Yaar, what did the queen actually ask the fisherwoman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Yaar · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: queen, fisherwoman

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1849 «Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the queen's fish laughs and the vizier's son sets off» 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	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yaar	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 ask	advmod
8	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fisherwoman	det
10	fisherwoman	fisherwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Yaar	the queen					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	present	Yaar not said here	the fisherwoman				actually property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fisherwoman=Recipient

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

What the fish was doing and whether it could talk to people at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 talk	cc
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	10 talk	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 talk	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	aux
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 doing	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 talk	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	the fish						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	talk	could	fish			all		to people	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to people=Co-Agent

Option 2

If it was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 hungry	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Whether the fish was male or female

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	5 male	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 male	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 male	cop
5	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 female	cc
7	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 male	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fish					male property	tree rules
2	be		the fish not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

If the big fish was a he or a she

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 a	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 a	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 a	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 a	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 a	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 he	conj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 he	conj

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

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