Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 3: the me…

Did the merchant cry when he said goodbye to his family, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchant · What happens: cry, say · To what, where: goodbye, family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cry	nsubj
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 said	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	advcl
8	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 family	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 family	nmod:poss
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nah	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 nah	cc
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cry	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	the merchant						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	merchant	goodbye	merchant's family				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic to family=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, he wept so much he could barely tear himself away from the children at the door

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tear	advcl
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 wept	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tear	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tear	aux
9	barely	barely	ADV	_	10 tear	advmod
10	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 tear	obj
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 tear	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 children	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 away	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 door	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	he						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tear	could	he	himself = he		the door		away, barely property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he said goodbye and left calmly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 left	cc
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
8	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	7 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	goodbye					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic
2	leave	past	he not said here					calmly property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he could barely tear himself away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tear	aux
5	barely	barely	ADV	_	6 tear	advmod
6	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 tear	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 tear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear away	could	he	himself = he				away, barely property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location himself=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he hugged them all and walked off at once without shedding a single tear

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hugged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hugged	nsubj
4	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hugged	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walked	cc
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hugged	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 walked	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 walked	obl
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 shedding	mark
13	shedding	shed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 walked	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tear	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tear	amod
16	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shedding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hug	past	he	them = they	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
2	walk off	past	he not said here		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shed	gerund	he not said here	a single tear	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source

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