Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…

Why'd he bolt on his horse, anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: bolt

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 173 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13: robbed, a poor wood-cutter, finds a princess underground» 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	4 bolt	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bolt	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bolt	nsubj
4	bolt	bolt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 horse	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bolt	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 anyway	punct
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 bolt	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bolt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	would	he					on his horse; anyway property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory

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

cos there was no way he could win against that many blokes with swords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 win	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 win	aux
8	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl:relcl
9	against	against	ADP	_	12 blokes	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 blokes	nsubj
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 blokes	amod
12	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 win	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 swords	case
14	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	cos			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	win	could	way	no way not said here				against many blokes; with swords	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

Option 2

cos the horse was fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fast	cop
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 cos	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here	the horse					tree rules
2	is	past						fast property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cos fighting was pointless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fighting	compound
2	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pointless	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pointless	cop
4	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

cos they outnumbered him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outnumbered	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 outnumbered	nsubj
3	outnumbered	outnumber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 outnumbered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outnumber	past	cos	him = he					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

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