Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

that bloke in the cave was real shook, why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bloke · What happens: be · To what, where: real shook

This is test 9 · ★ 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 bloke	det
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shook	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cave	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cave	det
5	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bloke	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shook	cop
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shook	amod
8	shook	shook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 why	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 shook	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 shook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that bloke in the cave	real shook					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

he was scared to death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					to death; scared property	tree rules

Option 2

he was out of his mind with terror after seeing the corpses everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mind	cop
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 mind	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mind	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mind	nmod:poss
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 terror	case
8	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mind	nmod
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 seeing	mark
10	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 mind	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corpses	det
12	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seeing	obj
13	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 seeing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			his mind		with terror	tree rules
2	see	gerund	his mind not said here	the corpses				everywhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corpse=Stimulus

Option 3

he had been shocked to see a woman dragged down into the pit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shocked	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shocked	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 shocked	aux:pass
4	shocked	shock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shocked	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 woman	acl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 dragged	compound:prt
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 pit	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pit	det
13	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	shock	past · perfect · passive	he		tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	a woman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	drag down	participle	a woman not said here	the pit	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he was lost in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		he		the dark			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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