Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow…

wait, so why did the cook even hang the pigeon basket up? was he just being nice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, hang up, be · To what, where: pigeon basket

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1855 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow is caught and plucked» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hang	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 hang	advmod
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hang	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hang	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 hang	advmod
9	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 basket	det
11	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 basket	compound
12	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hang	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	9 hang	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 nice	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 nice	cop
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 nice	nsubj
17	just	just	ADV	_	19 nice	advmod
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 nice	cop
19	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hang	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hang up	past · do-support	you not said here	the pigeon basket		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
3	is	past	he		nice property	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

to earn merit so he would be reborn a rich man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 earn	mark
2	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 earn	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 reborn	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reborn	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 reborn	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 reborn	cop
8	reborn	reborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 earn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	to-infinitive		merit					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent merit=Beneficiary man=Theme
2	is	would	he					reborn property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to earn merit for his next life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 earn	mark
2	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 earn	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 life	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 life	amod
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 earn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	to-infinitive		merit				for his next life	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent merit=Theme for life=Source

Option 3

so the birds could be fed daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 fed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fed	nsubj:pass
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fed	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fed	aux:pass
6	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	daily	daily	ADV	_	6 fed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	could · passive		the birds				daily property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

because he wanted the birds to sing to him every morning in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sing	mark
7	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sing	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sing	obl:unmarked
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 kitchen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kitchen	det
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the birds					tree rules
2	sing speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	the birds not said here		him = he	the kitchen	morning		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location

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