Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…

Why couldn't the young man get up, though?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young man · What happens: not get up

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 168 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8: the talking fish and the Sultan's night journey» 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	7 get	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 get	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 get	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 get	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get up	could	the young man						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

He was half marble and his legs had turned to stone

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	4 marble	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 marble	cop
3	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 marble	amod
4	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	nsubj:pass
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 legs	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 legs	nmod:poss
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 marble	conj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	aux
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 stone	case
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	half marble and his legs					tree rules
2	turn	past · perfect · passive		half marble and his legs		stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 2

He was too weak

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	4 weak	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weak	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 weak	advmod
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He was beaten again

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 beaten	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beaten	aux:pass
3	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 beaten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past · passive		He			again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was half marble

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	4 marble	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 marble	cop
3	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 marble	amod
4	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	half marble					tree rules

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