Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 28: Sindbad outwi…

so the captain was like just dig your graves now, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: captain · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 dig	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 captain	det
3	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dig	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dig	cop
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 dig	mark
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 dig	advmod
7	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 graves	nmod:poss
9	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dig	obj
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 dig	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dig	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	7 dig	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dig	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the captain				now	dig property	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

real talk, he said it cause the mountain was cursed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cursed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obj
7	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	9 mountain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mountain	det
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cursed	aux:pass
11	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	talk				cause the mountain	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	curse	past · passive		real talk					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

nah, he just said it to scare them lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 scare	mark
8	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scare	obj
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	it					tree rules
2	scare	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 3

yeah, they were doomed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 doomed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 doomed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 doomed	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doomed	aux:pass
5	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

real talk, he said that cause nobody ever got out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 cause	mark
7	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 got	nsubj
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 got	advmod
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cause	ccomp
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cause	present				tree rules
3	get out	past	nobody	ever	out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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