Test 7 · ★★ · Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, a…

The Butterfly boasts to his wife, and Balkis helps make the boast come true. Why is this kind?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Butterfly, Balkis, boast · What happens: boast, help, make, come, be · To what, where: wife, boast, kind

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 101 «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» of the religion ethics 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

Sentence 1: The Butterfly boasts to his wife, and Balkis helps make the boast come true.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Butterfly	det
2	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 boasts	nsubj
3	boasts	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boasts	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 helps	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 helps	cc
9	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 helps	nsubj
10	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boasts	parataxis
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 helps	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boast	det
13	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	xcomp
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 come	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 boasts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	present	the Butterfly		Butterfly's wife		vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
2	help	present	Balkis				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	make	infinitive	Balkis not said here	the boast			tree rules
4	come	infinitive	the boast not said here			true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

Sentence 2: Why is this kind?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 kind	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this kind					tree rules

The options

Option 1

It punishes his wife for not believing him

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	2 punishes	nsubj
2	punishes	punish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 punishes	obj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 believing	mark
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 believing	advmod
7	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 punishes	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 believing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	present	It	his wife					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	not believe	gerund		him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2

It makes him the most powerful and feared animal in the whole world

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 powerful	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 powerful	advmod
6	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 feared	cc
8	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feared	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 world	amod
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	him = he				powerful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product
2	fear	past		animal		the whole world			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It saves him from shame, and he learns not to boast

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	2 saves	nsubj
2	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saves	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 shame	case
5	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saves	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 learns	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 learns	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 learns	nsubj
9	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saves	conj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 boast	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 boast	mark
12	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 learns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	save	present	It	him = he	shame	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from shame=Source
2	learn	present	he			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not boast speech: other	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It shows that boasting always works in the end

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	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 works	mark
4	boasting	boasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 works	advmod
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	work	present	boasting				in the end	always property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in end=Theme

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