Test 8 · ★ · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,…

Blud, how did the storks finally get their proper bodies back?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Blud, storks · What happens: do, get · To what, where: proper bodies

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Blud	Blud	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Blud	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storks	det
6	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	nsubj
7	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bodies	nmod:poss
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bodies	amod
11	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Blud						tree rules
2	get	present	the storks	storks's proper bodies				finally property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=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

They prayed to Allah and waved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prayed	nsubj
2	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Allah	case
4	Allah	Allah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 prayed	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 waved	cc
6	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 prayed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	They		Allah				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	wave	past	They not said here						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They said the word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	They	the word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They bowed to the sun and said the word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bowed	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	They					to the sun	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sun=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	They not said here	the word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 4

They bowed to the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	They					to the moon	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to moon=Theme

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