Test 12 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the que…
Lowkey, where did Kismat lead the young guy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kismat · What happens: lead · To what, where: young guy
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Lowkey | Lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lead | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lowkey | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 lead | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lead | aux |
| 5 | Kismat | Kismat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lead | nsubj |
| 6 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guy | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 guy | amod |
| 9 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lead | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 lead | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · do-support | Kismat | the young guy | Lowkey vocative | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guy=Theme |
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
Along the river road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 4 road | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 road | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 road | compound |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Straight to the palace where the king was waiting anxiously
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 palace | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 palace | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 waiting | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waiting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 waiting | aux |
| 9 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 palace | acl:relcl |
| 10 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 9 waiting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | the king | anxiously property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Wherever Kismat might lead him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 lead | advmod |
| 2 | Kismat | Kismat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lead | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lead | aux |
| 4 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lead | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | might | Kismat | him = he | wherever property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4
Along whichever road his father had warned him against taking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 3 road | case |
| 2 | whichever | whichever | DET | PronType=Rel | 3 road | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warned | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warned | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 warned | aux |
| 7 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 warned | obj |
| 9 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 10 taking | mark |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 warned | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past · perfect | his father | him = he | along whichever road | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | his father not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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