Test 4 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, pa…

wait, what did Katar do to the kid at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Katar · What happens: wait, do

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» 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	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Katar	Katar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 kid	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kid	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 first	case
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 do	obl
12	?	?	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	do	past · do-support	Katar					to the kid	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

swallowed him whole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 swallowed	obj
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 swallowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past		him = he				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

swallowed him whole and kept him inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 swallowed	obj
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 swallowed	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 swallowed	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	obj
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past		him = he				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	keep	past		him = he				inside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

carried him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 carried	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 carried	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past		him = he					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

swallowed him whole then spat him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spat	advcl
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 swallowed	obj
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 swallowed	xcomp
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 spat	advmod
5	spat	spat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spat	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 spat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	you not said here	him = he				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	spat out	imperative	you not said here	him = he			then		tree rules

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