Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the j…

fr was the fisherman scared at the start or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr · What happens: be · To what, where: start

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 165 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the jar is opened and a furious genie appears» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fisherman	det
4	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl:unmarked
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 start	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 start	det
8	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 start	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fr			the start		the fisherman obl:unmarked; scared property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

he trembled with fright

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 trembled	nsubj
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 fright	case
4	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trembled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	past	he					with fright	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he was brave

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	3 brave	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brave	cop
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					brave property	tree rules

Option 3

he trembled with fright and begged the genie for mercy at once

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 trembled	nsubj
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 fright	case
4	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trembled	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 begged	cc
6	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trembled	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 genie	det
8	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begged	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 mercy	case
10	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 genie	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	past	he					with fright	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	he not said here	the genie				for mercy	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent genie=Recipient for mercy=Topic

Option 4

he shook with great fear

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 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 fear	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fear	amod
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shook	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	he					with great fear	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with fear=Co-Patient

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