Test 8 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the que…

Bro, what did the king say the queen must be?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, Bro · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Bro · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 be	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bro	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 be	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the king	Bro					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme queen=Manner
2	be	must	Bro						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Ill and confused by the strange smell in the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 confused	cc
3	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ill	conj
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 smell	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 smell	det
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 smell	amod
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ill	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smell	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Joking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	gerund							vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Foolish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dreaming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dreaming	dreaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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