Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

so did the king reckon the foreigners got a free pass?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, foreigners · What happens: reckon, get · To what, where: free pass

This is test 5 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 reckon	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 foreigners	det
7	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pass	det
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pass	amod
11	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the king						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	past	the foreigners	a free pass					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pass=Stimulus

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

nah, they had to leave town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they						tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive	they not said here	town					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme

Option 2

yeah, they could just go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	could	they					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, if they wed there, same rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wed	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wed	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wed	nsubj
5	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 wed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rule	punct
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rule	amod
9	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	present	they	same rule		there			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

nah, if they wed there, they got buried alive with the wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 buried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wed	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wed	nsubj
5	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 buried	advcl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 wed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wed	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 buried	nsubj:pass
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 buried	aux:pass
10	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 buried	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 wife	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wife	det
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed a condition, not said to happen	present	they			there			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	bury	past · passive		they				with the wife; alive property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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