Test 11 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the que…

Ya, why was the vizier kinda cooked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cook · To what, where: Ya

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Ya	Ya	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cooked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ya	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 cooked	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cooked	aux:pass
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vizier	det
6	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cooked	nsubj:pass
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	8 cooked	advmod
8	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 cooked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past · passive		Ya				kinda property	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 · ← Mova's choice

He'd lose his big house

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 lose	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 house	nmod:poss
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 house	amod
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	He	his big house					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Eventuality

Option 2

He'd lose his gold

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 lose	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gold	nmod:poss
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	He	his gold					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He'd die if he failed in six months

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 die	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 die	aux
3	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 failed	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 failed	nsubj
6	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 die	ccomp
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 failed	advmod
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 months	nummod
9	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 failed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	He						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fail a condition, not said to happen	past	he				month		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He'd be sent to prison

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 sent	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 prison	case
6	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	would · passive		He		prison			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to prison=Destination

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