Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned…

What happened to the crows, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1853 «Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned pilaw meant for the vizier's son» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 crows	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crows	det
5	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happened	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crows	appos
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to the crows	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

They turned to stone

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	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 stone	case
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	They			stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They fell from the trees and never flew again over the palace

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	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flew	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 flew	advmod
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	They			the trees			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location
2	not fly	past	They not said here			the palace	again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over palace=Location

Option 3

They dropped down dead onto the grass beside the stream

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	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 dropped	compound:prt
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dropped	xcomp
5	onto	onto	ADP	_	7 grass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
8	beside	beside	ADP	_	10 stream	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stream	det
10	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop down	past	They			the grass		beside the stream; dead property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent onto grass=Destination beside stream=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They dropped down dead

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	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 dropped	compound:prt
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dropped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop down	past	They					dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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