Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…

lol, did the fisherman go back to the lake at night?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fisherman · What happens: go back

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 167 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king dies of poisoned pages, then the magic fish burn in the kitchen» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fisherman	det
5	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 lake	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lake	det
10	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past · do-support	the fisherman				night	to the lake result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to lake=Result

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

no, he stayed at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he went to the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			the lake			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he crept out to the lake in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 crept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 crept	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dark	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep out	past	he			the dark		to the lake; out property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to lake=Destination

Option 4

yeah, he went back to the lake at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 midnight	case
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	he					to the lake at midnight result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to lake=Result

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