Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escap…

wait, what happens to the porter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, happen

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 183 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escapes the diamond valley on an eagle's meat and sails home with the merchants.» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 porter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 porter	det
7	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	present						to the porter	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

he is carried away by an eagle the next morning

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 carried	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	aux:pass
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 carried	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 eagle	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 eagle	det
7	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 morning	amod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry away	present · passive	a eagle	he			morning	away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

he sells the diamonds

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 sells	nsubj
2	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 diamonds	det
4	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	he	the diamonds					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he comes back next day

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 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 comes	advmod
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	he				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he goes home to sleep

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 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 goes	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 goes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	he					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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