Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: t…

Hold up, what did the executioner do before he swung?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: hold up, do, swing · To what, where: executioner

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1432 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: the magician steals the lamp and Aladdin is nearly beheaded» 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 executioner	det
7	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 swung	aux
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 swung	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 swung	nsubj
11	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 executioner	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	do	past		the executioner	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent executioner=Eventuality
3	swing	present · do-support	he	the executioner not said here	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent executioner=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

blindfolded him and bowed low, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blindfolded	blindfold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 blindfolded	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bowed	cc
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 blindfolded	conj
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bowed	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 blindfolded	punct
7	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	1 blindfolded	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blindfold	past			him = he				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination
2	bow	past						low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

tied his hands, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tied	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 tied	punct
5	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	1 tied	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past		his hands					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

blindfolded him, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blindfolded	blindfold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 blindfolded	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 blindfolded	punct
4	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	1 blindfolded	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blindfold	past			him = he				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination

Option 4

bandaged him, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bandaged	bandage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bandaged	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bandaged	punct
4	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	1 bandaged	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bandage	past			him = he				vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination

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