Test 4 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56…

Did Nur Mahomed nick a snooze in the garden?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nur · What happens: nick · To what, where: snooze, garden

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1255 «Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56: the princess swaps a letter and a wedding is ordered» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Nur	aux
2	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nick	nsubj
3	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nur	flat
4	nick	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snooze	det
6	snooze	snooze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nick	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nick	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 nick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	present	Nur	a snooze		the garden			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snooze=Patient

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

Yeah, he dozed a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dozed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dozed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dozed	nsubj
4	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dozed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze	past	he	a bit					vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was out cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cold	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cold	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
5	out	out	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, he kept watch over the packet all afternoon long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 packet	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 packet	det
8	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 afternoon	det
10	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he				afternoon	long property	tree rules
2	watch	infinitive	he not said here			the packet			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over packet=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was snoring loudly under the big tree for hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 snoring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 snoring	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snoring	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snoring	aux
5	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 snoring	advmod
7	under	under	ADP	_	10 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snoring	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 hours	case
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snoring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	past · progressive	he			the big tree	hour	loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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