Test 4 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the que…
Scene is wild, so what did the queen do after the fish laughed?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scene, fish · What happens: be, do, laugh · To what, where: queen
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wild | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wild | cop |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 did | advmod |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 laughed | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 laughed | aux |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 laughed | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fish | det |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laughed | nsubj |
| 14 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wild | parataxis |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wild | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Scene | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the queen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | laugh | present · do-support | the fish | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
She ordered all the servants out of the palace garden at once and sat down
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 servants | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servants | det |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ordered | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 garden | compound |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 ordered | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ordered | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 sat | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | She | all servants | the palace garden | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent servant=Theme at once=Asset | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | She not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
She went back in a huge rage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rage | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rage | amod |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | She | a huge rage | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
She left quietly in tears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 2 left | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tears | case |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | She | in tears result; quietly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tear=Result |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
She went straight back to her room and slammed the door behind her loudly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 back | advmod |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 slammed | cc |
| 9 | slammed | slam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slammed | obj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 slammed | obl |
| 14 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 9 slammed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | She | her room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | slam | past | She not said here | the door | behind her = she; loudly property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent door=Patient behind she=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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