Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

Did the potion work fast, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: potion · What happens: work

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1497 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 84: the magician fakes a fever and gets in» 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 potion	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 potion	det
3	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	nsubj
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 work	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nah	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 work	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the potion					fast property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Pretty much right on time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	3 right	advmod
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 time	case
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Way faster than she said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 faster	nsubj
2	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	SCONJ	_	5 said	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 faster	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Way						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It worked super fast, she jumped up and was cured before the women even finished talking

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worked	nsubj
2	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	super	super	ADV	_	2 worked	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 worked	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 jumped	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 jumped	nsubj
7	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 worked	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 jumped	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cured	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cured	aux:pass
11	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 finished	advcl
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 women	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 women	det
14	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cured	obl
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 finished	advmod
16	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 worked	conj
17	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 finished	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	It		fast, super property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	jump up	past	she			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cure	past · passive		before the women		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»
4	finish	past				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	talk	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nope, it kicked in way faster than the women said, like almost instantly, wow

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	nsubj
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kicked	obl
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 said	advmod
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 women	det
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kicked	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 instantly	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 instantly	case
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 instantly	advmod
15	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wow	punct
17	wow	wow	INTJ	_	4 kicked	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	it			way			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the women					fast, instantly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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