Test 5 · ★ · Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old…

No way, he got stabbed for the king and lived?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: stab, live · To what, where: he

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1254 «Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old woman's foundling becomes a soldier, and a dog dies after a meal» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stabbed	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stabbed	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stabbed	aux:pass
6	stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stabbed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lived	cc
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stabbed	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stabbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past · passive		he				for the king; no way obl:unmarked	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	live	past							vn exist-47.1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1

Yep, the dagger glanced off his ribs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 glanced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dagger	det
4	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glanced	nsubj
5	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 glanced	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ribs	nmod:poss
8	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glanced	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glance off	past	the dagger	dagger's ribs					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the blade hit his breastbone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hit	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blade	det
4	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	nsubj
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 breastbone	nmod:poss
7	breastbone	breastbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	the blade	blade's breastbone					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme breastbone=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Yeah, he lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	he						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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