Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

how did the town feel about all the weddings?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: town · What happens: feel

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 161 «Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl offers herself to the sultan» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 town	det
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 weddings	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 weddings	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 weddings	det
9	weddings	wedding	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feel	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the town					about all weddings	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about wedding=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

total misery, loads of crying and curses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 misery	amod
2	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loads	punct
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 misery	appos
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 crying	mark
6	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 loads	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 curses	cc
8	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crying	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	loads not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

loads of crying and cursing going on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crying	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	3 crying	mark
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cursing	cc
5	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 crying	conj
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 crying	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	loads	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	curse	gerund	loads not said here	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go on	gerund	loads not said here	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

total misery, loads of crying and curses, and they hated the sultan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 misery	amod
2	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hated	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loads	punct
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 misery	appos
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 crying	mark
6	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 loads	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 curses	cc
8	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crying	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hated	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hated	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hated	nsubj
12	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sultan	det
14	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	loads not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hate	past	total misery	the sultan					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sultan=Stimulus

Option 4

total misery, loads of crying, curses and people fleeing the town in fear

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 misery	amod
2	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loads	punct
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 misery	appos
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 crying	mark
6	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 loads	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 curses	punct
8	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 misery	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 people	cc
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 curses	conj
11	fleeing	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 people	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fleeing	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 fear	case
15	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fleeing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	loads not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flee	gerund	people not said here	the town		fear			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Initial_Location

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