Test 10 · ★ · Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sul…

What's the gazelle's wheeze for the clothes, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: wheeze, gazelle · What happens: be, wheeze

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1772 «Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sultan's favour and dresses its master in fine clothes» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gazelle	det
4	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wheeze	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 gazelle	case
6	wheeze	wheeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 clothes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clothes	det
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 wheeze	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	1 What	case
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the gazelle's wheeze for the clothes						tree rules
2	wheeze		the gazelle					for the clothes	nom wheeze «act intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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

hang them off the saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hang	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 saddle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 saddle	det
5	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	them = they				off the saddle	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

lash the whole lot to the back of the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lash	lash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lot	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lot	amod
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lash	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lash	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 horse	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lash	imperative	you not said here	the whole lot				to the back of the horse	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent lot=Patient to back=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

tie them to the horse's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tie	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 back	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 horse	case
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	imperative	you not said here	them = they				to the horse's back	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to back=Co-Patient

Option 4

tie them tight to the horse's back, innit, and go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tie	obj
3	tight	tight	ADV	_	1 tie	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 horse	case
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tie	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 go	cc
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 tie	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	imperative	you not said here	them = they				to the horse's back and innit; tight property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to back=Co-Patient
2	go	infinitive	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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