Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the…

Was the gazelle proper scared or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: gazelle · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gazelle	det
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	nsubj
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 scared	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the gazelle					properly, scared property	tree rules

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

It ran off to hide quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hide	mark
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ran	advcl
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hide	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	It						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	to-infinitive						quick property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It said it was fine now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	It				now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past						fine property	tree rules

Option 3

Not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

It said "if I die, I die"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 die	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 die	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 die	nsubj
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 die	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 die	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 die	nsubj
9	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	It	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	I	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	die in a quote	present	I	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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