Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

Mate, what's Amina's neck look like after she sings?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, Amina · What happens: be, look, sing · To what, where: neck

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 170 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10: three shaven Calenders come to the ladies' house, and the mystery of the dogs and the scars begins» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 neck	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 neck	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 neck	cop
5	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 neck	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Amina	case
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 sings	mark
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 sings	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sings	nsubj
12	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 look	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate and Amina's neck	Amina's neck	tree rules
2	look	present	Mate and Amina's neck		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	sing speech: express	present	Amina		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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

Covered in tiny jewels and gold rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 jewels	case
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jewels	amod
4	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Covered	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rings	cc
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rings	compound
7	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jewels	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						in tiny jewels and gold rings	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in jewel=Theme

Option 2

Stained with wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stained	stain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 wine	case
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stain	participle						with wine	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wine=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Covered in scars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 scars	case
3	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						in scars	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in scar=Theme

Option 4

Bright red as if she had been burned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 red	amod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 burned	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 burned	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 burned	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 burned	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 burned	aux:pass
8	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 red	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · perfect · passive		she					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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