Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…

Why'd the sailors wanna chuck him in the sea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailors · What happens: wanna, chuck · To what, where: him, sea

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 175 «Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey» 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	5 wanna	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wanna	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sailors	det
4	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wanna	nsubj
5	wanna	wanna	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanna	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuck	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wanna	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wanna	would	the sailors						tree rules
2	chuck	infinitive	the sailors not said here	him = he		the sea			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sea=Destination

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

They think he's a spy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spy	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spy	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spy	det
6	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	They						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	he	a spy					tree rules

Option 2

They thought he was a genie in disguise sent to sink the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 genie	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 genie	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 genie	det
6	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 disguise	case
8	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 genie	nmod
9	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 genie	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sink	mark
11	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ship	det
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	a genie	disguise	tree rules
3	send	participle		a genie not said here		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sink	to-infinitive		the ship		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient

Option 3

He cursed the captain and insulted the sailors' mother in public

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cursed	nsubj
2	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 captain	det
4	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cursed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 insulted	cc
6	insulted	insult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cursed	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sailors	det
8	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mother	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 sailors	case
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 insulted	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 public	case
12	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 insulted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past	He	the captain					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Theme
2	insult	past	He not said here	the sailors's mother		public			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mother=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bad luck, they thought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 luck	amod
2	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 luck	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Bad luck						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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