Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

Did Prince Houssain hang about in Bisnagar for ages?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Houssain · What happens: hang

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» 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	3 Houssain	aux
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Houssain	nmod:desc
3	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hang	nsubj
4	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 Bisnagar	case
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Bisnagar	case
7	Bisnagar	Bisnagar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hang	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ages	case
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hang	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present	Houssain Prince				for ages	about Bisnagar	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about bisnagar=Location

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

Yes, he lingered a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lingered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lingered	nsubj
4	lingered	linger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lingered	obj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he stayed in Bisnagar for many months before flying back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Bisnagar	case
6	Bisnagar	Bisnagar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 months	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 months	amod
9	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stayed	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 flying	mark
11	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stayed	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 flying	advmod
13	home	home	ADV	_	11 flying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he			Bisnagar	month		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bisnagar=Location
2	fly back	gerund	he not said here					home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, he waited a month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, he flew off quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 flew	compound:prt
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	he					quick property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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