Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

did the lion walk ahead or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: walk

This is test 5 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	nsubj
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 walk	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · do-support	the lion					ahead property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it stayed by his side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	by	by	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 side	nmod:poss
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it					by his side	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location

Option 2

yeah, it walked ahead of him and wagged its tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ahead	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wagged	cc
9	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tail	nmod:poss
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wagged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	it					ahead property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wag	past		its tail					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, head and tail, no harm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 head	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 head	punct
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tail	cc
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 head	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 harm	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 harm	det
8	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 head	conj

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

Option 4

yeah, it walked ahead of him with its head and tail held low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tail	cc
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	conj
13	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tail	acl
14	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 held	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	it					of him = he; with its head and tail; ahead property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of he=Trajectory
2	hold	participle		tail not said here				low property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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