Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, p…

Why'd he snooze all alone, like, what happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: snooze, happen

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 182 «Arabian Nights, The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, part 22: Sindbad is stranded and finds a giant white egg» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 snooze	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 snooze	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snooze	nsubj
4	snooze	snooze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 alone	advmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 snooze	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	11 happened	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 happened	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happened	nsubj
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 snooze	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 snooze	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snooze	would	he					alone property	vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He had scoff and wine, then nodded off by a brook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scoff	scoff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wine	cc
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scoff	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nodded	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 nodded	advmod
8	nodded	nod	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 nodded	compound:prt
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 brook	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 brook	det
12	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nodded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	scoff and wine					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scoff=Patient
2	nod off	participle	He not said here				then	by a brook	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He drank too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	He	much					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient

Option 3

He was bored and wandered about the island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wandered	cc
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	conj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 island	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bored property	tree rules
2	wander	past	He not said here					about the island	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about island=Trajectory

Option 4

After a feast with his companions, he wandered off drunk and slept under a tree by the sea

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 feast	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feast	det
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wandered	obl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 companions	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 companions	nmod:poss
6	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feast	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feast	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wandered	nsubj
9	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 wandered	compound:prt
11	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wandered	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 slept	cc
13	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wandered	conj
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slept	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander off	past	he				after a feast with his companions	drunk property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	past	he not said here			a tree		by the sea	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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