Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son: a cle…

Was the princess really a ghoul, or is that just the fakir's lie?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: princess, lie

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1854 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son: a clever trick, a cruel princess punished, and a happy ending» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 princess	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ghoul	csubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 ghoul	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ghoul	det
6	ghoul	ghoul	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lie	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 lie	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lie	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 lie	mark
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 fakir	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fakir	det
13	fakir	fakir	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lie	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 fakir	case
15	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ghoul	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ghoul	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the princess					tree rules
2	is a	present		the fakir's lie					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 · ← Mova's choice

She really was a ghoul, the fakir just told the truth about her

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	10 told	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 ghoul	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ghoul	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ghoul	det
5	ghoul	ghoul	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fakir	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fakir	det
8	fakir	fakir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ghoul	conj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 told	advmod
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 truth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a ghoul and the fakir					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	She	the truth				about fakir	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient about she=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was a lie, obvs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lie	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lie	det
4	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 obvs	punct
6	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lie	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a lie and obvs					tree rules

Option 3

She was a ghoul, yeah

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	4 ghoul	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ghoul	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ghoul	det
4	ghoul	ghoul	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ghoul	punct
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ghoul	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a ghoul					tree rules

Option 4

It was real, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 real	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 honestly	punct
5	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	3 real	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					honestly, real property	tree rules

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