Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escap…

ngl, how did the merchants feel when they found him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchants · What happens: feel, find · To what, where: ngl

This is test 13 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feel	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 feel	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feel	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchants	det
6	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feel	nsubj
7	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 ngl	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 found	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feel	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the merchants						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	find	past	merchants = merchant	ngl					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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

they were shocked and upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shocked	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shocked	cop
3	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 upset	cc
5	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shocked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					shocked property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they were amazed and mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 amazed	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 amazed	aux:pass
3	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mad	cc
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 amazed	conj

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

Option 3

scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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