Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…

Did the robbers actually care who he was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robbers · What happens: care, be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 care	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 care	advmod
5	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 was	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 was	nsubj
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 care	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	past · do-support	the robbers					actually property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

nah, they didn't care who he was, they just wanted all his stuff and his horse

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 care	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 care	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 care	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 care	advmod
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	6 care	ccomp
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 who	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 who	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 wanted	advmod
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 care	parataxis
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 stuff	det:predet
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stuff	nmod:poss
16	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wanted	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 horse	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 horse	nmod:poss
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wanted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	they		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	he		tree rules
3	want	past	they	his stuff	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stuff=Theme

Option 2

nah, they were just laughing and told him to shut up and hand it over

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 laughing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laughing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughing	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 laughing	advmod
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughing	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 shut	mark
11	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 shut	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hand	cc
14	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 shut	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hand	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	14 hand	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	they			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	they not said here		him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	shut up not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	hand over	infinitive	they not said here	it		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, it was none of their business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 none	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 none	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 none	cop
5	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 business	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 business	nmod:poss
8	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 none	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	none				of their business	tree rules

Option 4

nah, they just wanted his gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gold	nmod:poss
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	his gold					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme

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