Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Demon with the Matted Hair, part 1…

yaar why'd he call the city a cemetery, lowkey so sus

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yaar · What happens: call · To what, where: city · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1850 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Demon with the Matted Hair, part 1: the prince meets the Demon in the forest» 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	yaar	yaar	X	Foreign=Yes	5 call	nsubj
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 call	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 call	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cemetery	det
9	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lowkey	punct
11	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cemetery	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 sus	advmod
13	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	would	yaar	the city					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent city=Recipient

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

the city folks ignored him, graveyard folks fed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 folks	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 folks	compound
3	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ignored	nsubj
4	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignored	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fed	punct
7	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 folks	compound
8	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fed	nsubj
9	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ignored	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	the city folks	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	feed	past	graveyard folks		him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

bc the city was full of greedy people while the cemetery crowd gave him tea, chapatis and a warm place to sleep

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bc	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 full	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 city	det
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 gave	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crowd	det
11	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crowd	compound
12	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chapatis	punct
17	chapatis	chapati	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tea	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 place	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
20	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 place	amod
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tea	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 sleep	mark
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 place	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	bc			of greedy people; full property	tree rules
2	give	past	the cemetery crowd	tea and chapatis and a warm place	bc		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tea=Theme
3	sleep	to-infinitive	the cemetery crowd not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nobody in the city fed him but the cemetery folks did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 fed	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 city	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 city	det
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 nobody	nmod
5	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 did	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 folks	det
9	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 folks	compound
10	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	nobody		him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	do	past	the cemetery folks						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

cause the city people kicked him out and the cemetery folks were the only ones who shared food with him

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kicked	reparandum
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	compound
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kicked	nsubj
5	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kicked	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 kicked	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ones	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 folks	det
10	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 folks	compound
11	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ones	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ones	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ones	det
14	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kicked	conj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 shared	nsubj
17	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ones	acl:relcl
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shared	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	kick out	past	the city people	him = he		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	is a	past	the cemetery folks	the only ones		tree rules
4	share	past	the only ones	food	with him = he	tree rules

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