Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

yo so the lions didnt eat him, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: eat · To what, where: him

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1499 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 86: Ahmed fetches the lions' water, then meets Schaibar, the Fairy's giant brother» 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	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	nsubj
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 didnt	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lions	det
4	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 didnt	compound
5	didnt	didnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yo	nmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	6 eat	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	yo so lions didnt	him = he					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he threw them mutton and they still followed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obj
6	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 followed	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 followed	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 followed	advmod
10	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 followed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mutton=Theme
2	follow	past	they	him = he			still		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

nah, he fed them meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	nsubj
4	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	obj
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	he	them = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient meat=Theme

Option 3

nah, he threw them mutton and walked right past

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obj
6	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walked	cc
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
9	right	right	ADV	_	10 past	advmod
10	past	past	ADV	_	8 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mutton=Theme
2	walk	past	he not said here					past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he tossed them mutton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tossed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tossed	nsubj
4	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tossed	obj
6	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tossed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	he	them = they					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary mutton=Product

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