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

Was the iron door locked, though?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, lock · To what, where: iron door

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1495 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 82: a lost arrow leads Ahmed to a hidden palace» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 door	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
3	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 locked	csubj
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 though	punct
7	though	though	ADV	_	5 locked	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 locked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the iron door					tree rules
2	lock	participle						though property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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

Nah, looked like it had no lock or key at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 lock	det
8	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 key	cc
10	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lock	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	participle							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	past	it	no lock or key		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, it was locked tight with a big iron lock, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 locked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 locked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 locked	aux:pass
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	tight	tight	ADV	_	5 locked	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 lock	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lock	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lock	amod
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lock	compound
11	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 locked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lock	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		it				with a big iron lock; tight property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with lock=Instrument

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

Nah, looked like it had no lock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 lock	det
8	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	participle							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	past	it	no lock					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient

Option 4

Nah, it had a rusty bolt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bolt	det
6	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bolt	amod
7	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	a rusty bolt					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Patient

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