Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 3: the me…

Hang on, the calf begged the old man with its head on the ground?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, calf · What happens: hang on, beg · To what, where: old man, ground

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 begged	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 calf	det
5	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begged	nsubj
6	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hang	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begged	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begged	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	the calf		the old man	the ground			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent man=Recipient

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

Yeah, it begged him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	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 begged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	it		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it did that to stop him killing it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 did	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stop	obj
9	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 killing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	it	that	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	stop	to-infinitive		him = he	tree rules
3	kill	gerund		it	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it was just lying down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 lying	advmod
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 lying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past · progressive	it					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, it bowed to show respect to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bowed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bowed	nsubj
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bowed	xcomp
7	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	it						tree rules
2	show	to-infinitive		respect	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Topic to he=Recipient

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