Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 3: the me…

How many old men actually sat round the fountain, like three?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many old men · What happens: sit

This is test 11 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sat	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 sat	advmod
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 fountain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fountain	det
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 three	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 three	case
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sat	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	many old men					round the fountain; like three; actually property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, three old men came to sit near him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sit	mark
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	xcomp
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	three old men						tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive	three old men not said here					near him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location

Option 2

Nah, actually four old men came along and sat around the fountain with the merchant that day

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	along	along	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 fountain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fountain	det
13	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 merchant	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 merchant	det
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come along	past	four old men					actually, along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	four old men not said here			the fountain	day	with the merchant	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around fountain=Location

Option 3

Yeah, three old men waited with the merchant, one after another, until the genie came

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 waited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 waited	nsubj
6	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 merchant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waited	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 waited	conj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 genie	det
17	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 waited	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	three old men					with the merchant	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	the genie						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, three old men waited with the merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 waited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 waited	nsubj
6	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 merchant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	three old men					with the merchant	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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