Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator…

bro, did the narrator cut her head off or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: cut off · To what, where: head

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 174 «Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator smashes the talisman, and the genius catches him» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrator	det
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 cut	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past · do-support	the narrator	narrator's head				bro vocative	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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

nah, he hid in the corner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 corner	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 corner	det
7	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he			the corner			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location

Option 2

yeah, he cut her head off right away and then wept by her body in the hall

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
7	off	off	ADV	_	4 cut	advmod
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	4 cut	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wept	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 wept	advmod
12	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 body	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 body	nmod:poss
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wept	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	he	her head				away, off property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	weep	past	he not said here				then	by her body; in the hall	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hall=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he cut her head off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
7	off	off	ADV	_	4 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	he	her head				off property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he threw the sabre down and refused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sabre	det
6	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	4 threw	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 refused	cc
9	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past	he	the sabre					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sabre=Theme
2	refuse	past	he not said here						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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