Test 11 · ★ · Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sul…

Did the gazelle need the soldiers to come, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: gazelle, soldiers · What happens: do, need, come · To what, where: soldiers

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gazelle	det
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldiers	det
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	1 Did	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	need	present	the gazelle	the soldiers	tree rules
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	the soldiers not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «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

yeah, bring them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

yeah, it's needed now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 needed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 needed	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 needed	aux:pass
5	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 needed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		it			now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 3

yeah, it needs them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 needs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 needs	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needs	nsubj
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needs	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, it's enough on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 enough	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 enough	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 enough	cop
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 enough	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			its own		enough property	tree rules

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