Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

when the bloke's missus died, what was the mad rule on that gaff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: missus · What happens: die, be · To what, where: mad rule, gaff

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 186 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becomes rich on a strange island, then is buried alive with his dead wife and survives by killing newcomers.» 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 died	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bloke	det
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 missus	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 bloke	case
5	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rule	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 rule	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rule	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rule	det
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rule	amod
12	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 gaff	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 gaff	det
15	gaff	gaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rule	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 rule	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the bloke's missus						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	past		the mad rule		that gaff			tree rules

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

the husband got buried with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buried	aux:pass
4	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · passive		the husband				with her = she	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

the wife got buried alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buried	aux:pass
4	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 buried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · passive		the wife				alone property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

the husband got buried alive in the grave with her body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buried	aux:pass
4	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 buried	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 grave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grave	det
8	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 body	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · passive		the husband		the grave		with her body; alive property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination

Option 4

the husband had to dig her grave and then die beside her in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dig	mark
5	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grave	nmod:poss
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dig	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 die	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 die	advmod
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dig	conj
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 die	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the husband				tree rules
2	dig	to-infinitive	the husband not said here	her grave			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme
3	die	infinitive	the husband not said here		then	beside her = she; in grave	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in it=Attribute

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