Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheh…

wait, what did the merchant do to the genie's son by accident?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, merchant · What happens: wait, do

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 162 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheherazade wins more days by telling a tale of a merchant facing a fierce genie» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 son	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 genie	det
10	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 genie	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 accident	case
14	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · do-support	the merchant					to the genie's son; by accident	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

a date pit hit his shoulder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pit	det
2	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pit	compound
3	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shoulder	nmod:poss
6	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a date pit	pit's shoulder					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shoulder=Co-Theme

Option 2

a date stone hit him right in the eye and he died instantly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stone	compound
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	4 hit	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 eye	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eye	det
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 died	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 died	nsubj
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	conj
13	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	12 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a date stone	him = he		the eye		right property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in eye=Destination
2	die	past	stone					instantly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

a date stone hit him in the eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stone	compound
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 eye	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eye	det
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a date stone	him = he		the eye			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in eye=Destination

Option 4

he tripped over a tree root

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tripped	nsubj
2	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	6 root	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 root	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 root	compound
6	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past	he			a tree root			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over root=Trajectory

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