Test 14 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

Why did the mum not know the baby was clever?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, baby · What happens: not know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 know	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clever	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 clever	cop
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 know	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the mum						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the baby					clever 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

she was so tired from fetching water that she never looked at the baby properly at all

The tree, 17 words

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 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 fetching	mark
6	fetching	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 tired	advcl
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fetching	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 looked	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 looked	advmod
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 baby	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 baby	det
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	obl
15	properly	properly	ADV	_	11 looked	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 properly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		tired property	tree rules
2	fetch	gerund	she not said here	water		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	not look	past	she		at the baby; properly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at baby=Theme

Option 2

she was too busy to notice him

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 busy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 busy	advmod
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 notice	mark
6	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 busy	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 notice	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					busy property	tree rules
2	notice	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

she was too busy

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 busy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 busy	advmod
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she had no idea about his magic

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 idea	det
4	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 magic	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 magic	nmod:poss
7	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 idea	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	no idea				about his magic	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient

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