Test 12 · ★ · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

Gutted, what did the sultan do after all those years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut, do · To what, where: sultan

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1794 «Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the bird» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sultan	det
6	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 years	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 years	det:predet
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 years	det
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	gut	participle			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	the sultan		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Eventuality
3	do	present		year	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Laughed at the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 boy	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laughed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	participle							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Shook his head sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shook	obj
4	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	1 Shook	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past		his head				sadly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 3

Sighed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sighed	sigh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wept	weep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	participle							vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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