Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 3: the me…

Mate, so the merchant just wanders back to get killed, proper?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchant · What happens: wander back, kill

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 163 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 3: the merchant goes back to the fountain, and an old man begins his tale» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanders	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wanders	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 wanders	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanders	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 wanders	advmod
7	wanders	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 wanders	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	11 killed	mark
10	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 killed	aux:pass
11	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wanders	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 proper	punct
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 killed	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wanders	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander back	present	the merchant					Mate vocative	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	to-infinitive · passive	the merchant not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he gave his word, so he went back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	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 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	past	he	his word	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	go back	past	he		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	word		his = he		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Nah, he never meant to go back, but then he remembered his promise and returned to the fountain

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 meant	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 meant	advmod
5	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 meant	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remembered	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 remembered	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 remembered	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 remembered	nsubj
13	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 meant	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 promise	nmod:poss
15	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remembered	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 returned	cc
17	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 remembered	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 fountain	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fountain	det
20	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 returned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not mean	past	he				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	remember	past	he	his promise	then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
4	return	past	he not said here			to the fountain result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fountain=Result
5	promise		his = he				nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Yeah, he gave his word to the genie, so he went back to the fountain to die

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	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 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 genie	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 genie	det
9	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 fountain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fountain	det
17	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 die	mark
19	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	his word	the genie		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Theme to genie=Recipient
2	go back	past	he			to the fountain result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fountain=Result
3	die	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	word		his = he				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he went back to pay his debts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pay	mark
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 debts	nmod:poss
9	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	he						tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	he not said here	his debts					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset

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