Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

Why did the fisherman feel happy when the net got heavy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fisherman, net · What happens: feel, get

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fisherman	det
4	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 got	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 net	det
9	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	advcl
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the fisherman					happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	get	past	the net					heavy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He believed he had caught a huge fish that would feed his children for a month

The tree, 16 words

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 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 believed	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fish	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 feed	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 feed	aux
11	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fish	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feed	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 month	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 month	det
16	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	believe	past	He				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	catch	past · perfect · passive		he			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary fish=Theme
3	feed	would	a huge fish		fish's children	month	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient

Option 2

He saw a golden coin inside

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coin	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coin	amod
5	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 saw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He	a golden coin				inside property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coin=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He thought he had a big fish

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	he	a big fish					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 4

He thought the genie had sent him a magic fish to sell

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 genie	det
4	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fish	det
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fish	amod
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sell	mark
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sent	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	send	past · perfect · passive		the genie	tree rules
3	sell	to-infinitive			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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