Test 1 · ★ · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,…

Mate, who even grabbed the Caliph's wing to stop him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: grab, stop · To what, where: wing, him

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabbed	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grabbed	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grabbed	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 grabbed	advmod
5	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caliph	det
7	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wing	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Caliph	case
9	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabbed	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stop	mark
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 grabbed	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stop	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grabbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past		the Caliph's wing					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme
2	stop	to-infinitive		him = he					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality

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

The Vizier, obviously, who was too scared to let him go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Vizier	det
2	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Vizier	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 Vizier	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scared	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 scared	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scared	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 scared	advmod
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Vizier	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 let	mark
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 scared	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Vizier		scared property	tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	the Vizier not said here	him = he		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The Vizier, obviously, with his bill clamped on the wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Vizier	det
2	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 clamped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Vizier	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 Vizier	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Vizier	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bill	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bill	nmod:poss
8	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Vizier	nmod
9	clamped	clamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 wing	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wing	det
12	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clamped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clamp	past	the Vizier with Vizier's bill					on the wing	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on wing=Co-Patient
2	bill		Vizier						nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Vizier, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Vizier	det
2	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Vizier	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 Vizier	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The guard, I reckon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guard	det
2	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 guard	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the guard						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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