Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the…

How did the master feel when the gazelle came back, mate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: master, gazelle · What happens: feel, come back

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gazelle	det
8	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	vocative
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the master					mate vocative	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	come back	past	the gazelle						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

Like a child given a new horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 child	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 child	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle	a child not said here	a new horse					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Like a man whose prayers were granted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 man	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 prayers	nmod:poss
5	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 granted	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 granted	aux:pass
7	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 man	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	past · passive		prayers					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Like a man who had lost everything and then found it all again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 man	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lost	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 lost	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 found	advmod
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 it	det
13	again	again	ADV	_	10 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect		everything				like a man	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
2	find	past		it			then; again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Like someone who had waited forty years for a miracle at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 someone	case
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 waited	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waited	aux
5	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 someone	acl:relcl
6	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 waited	obl:unmarked
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 miracle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 miracle	det
10	miracle	miracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waited	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · perfect				last	year	for a miracle	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location

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