Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 28: Sindbad outwi…

yo, did Sindbad actually get the old dude off his back or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, get · To what, where: Sindbad, old dude

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 188 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 28: Sindbad outwits the Old Man, grows rich, then is stranded on a cliff island» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dude	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dude	amod
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 back	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 back	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dude	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 nah	cc
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	12 back	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Sindbad					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sindbad=Eventuality
2	get	present		the old dude				off Sindbad's back; actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dude=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

yeah, he tricked him with a stick and ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 stick	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stick	det
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tricked	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	him = he				with a stick	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	run off	past	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he got him wasted on wine and chucked him down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 got	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 wine	case
8	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wasted	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chucked	cc
10	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chucked	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 chucked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	him = he		tree rules
2	waste	participle	him = he not said here		on wine goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on wine=Goal
3	chuck down	past	he not said here	him = he		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he fed him wine till he passed out and then threw him off the island cliff onto the rocks

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	nsubj
4	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	obj
6	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fed	obj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 passed	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 passed	nsubj
9	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 passed	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threw	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 threw	advmod
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 threw	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	18 cliff	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cliff	det
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cliff	compound
18	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
19	onto	onto	ADP	_	21 rocks	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rocks	det
21	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	he	wine	him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wine=Theme
2	pass out	past	he						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	throw	past	he not said here	him = he		the rocks	then	off the island cliff	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme off cliff=Initial_Location onto rock=Destination

Option 4

nah, he tried wine but the old dude just held on tighter and laughed at him all day

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tried	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 held	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dude	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dude	amod
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 held	advmod
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 tighter	case
13	tighter	tight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 held	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laughed	cc
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laughed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	he	wine				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Eventuality
2	hold	past	the old dude		tighter			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tight=Location
3	laugh	past	he not said here			day	at dude	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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