Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11:…

yo, the porter just plonked himself on the posh sofa with the ladies, no way he got away with that?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: porter · What happens: plonk, get away · To what, where: porter, posh sofa, way

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 171 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11: the Calenders reveal who they are, and the First Calender begins his tale» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 plonked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porter	det
4	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plonked	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 plonked	advmod
6	plonked	plonk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 plonked	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 sofa	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sofa	det
10	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sofa	amod
11	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plonked	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 ladies	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ladies	det
14	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plonked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ladies	appos
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 way	acl:relcl
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 got	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 got	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 plonked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plonk	past	the porter	porter		the posh sofa		with the ladies	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
2	get away	past	porter	no way not said here				with no way; away 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

yeah, he stood up and left quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stood	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 left	cc
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stood	conj
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	participle	he not said here					quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he sat there and nobody stopped him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stopped	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stopped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	past	nobody	him = he					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality

Option 3

yeah, he sat there and the ladies even offered him wine and food all night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 offered	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ladies	det
8	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 offered	nsubj
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 offered	advmod
10	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 offered	iobj
12	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offered	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 food	cc
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wine	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he			there	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	offer	past	the ladies	wine and food	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal wine=Theme

Option 4

nah, the ladies made him leave at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ladies	det
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the ladies	him = he					tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location

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