Test 7 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the que…
Like, what did the young guy ask the farmer to do with the knife?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young guy · What happens: ask, do · To what, where: farmer
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 8 ask | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 ask | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guy | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guy | amod |
| 7 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 farmer | det |
| 10 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ask | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 knife | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 knife | det |
| 15 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | the young guy | the farmer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young guy not said here | with the knife | vn act-114-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer
Get two horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 horses | nummod |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | two horses | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
Option 2
Get two oxen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 oxen | nummod |
| 3 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | two oxen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ox=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Sell it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Sell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | imperative | you not said here | it | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
Buy a cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cow | det |
| 3 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | imperative | you not said here | a cow | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
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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