Test 5 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…

Mansor was knackered after all that flying, wasn't he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: knacker, fly, not be · To what, where: Mansor

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1872 «Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget the magic word and spend a night in a haunted ruin» 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	Mansor	Mansor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knackered	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knackered	aux:pass
3	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 that	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 that	det:predet
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knackered	obl
7	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 that	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flying	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 he	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 he	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flying	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 knackered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	knacker	past · passive	Mansor	after that	tree rules
2	fly	gerund			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a	past	Mansor		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

Yeah, he said he couldn't go on, he was proper wiped out

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 go	advmod
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wiped	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wiped	aux:pass
13	proper	properly	ADV	_	14 wiped	advmod
14	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 wiped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not go on	could	he			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wipe out	past · passive		he	properly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

Option 2

Yeah, he was knackered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 knackered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knackered	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knackered	aux:pass
5	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knacker	past · passive		he					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, he stopped and had a nap in a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nap	det
8	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	have	past	he not said here	a nap		a tree			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient

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