Test 6 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the que…

Ngl, was the farmer's daughter the smartest in the house?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: daughter

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 daughter	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daughter	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 farmer	case
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 smartest	det
9	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 daughter	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smartest	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 daughter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	farmer's daughter				the smartest in the house nmod	tree rules

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

No, the father was the smartest because he owned all the land around here

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 smartest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smartest	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 smartest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 smartest	det
7	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 owned	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 owned	nsubj
10	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 smartest	advcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 land	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 owned	obj
14	around	around	ADP	_	15 here	case
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 owned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the father					smart property	tree rules
2	own	past	he	all land					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, she noticed he was clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 noticed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 noticed	nsubj
4	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 clever	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clever	cop
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 noticed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	she						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	he					clever property	tree rules

Option 3

No, the father was smarter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 smarter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smarter	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smarter	cop
6	smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, she spotted the youth was no fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 spotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spotted	nsubj
4	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fool	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fool	cop
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 fool	det
9	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spotted	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past	she						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	is a	past	the youth	no fool					tree rules

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