Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 28: Sindbad outwi…

was the town with stone houses cool or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: town · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cool	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 town	det
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cool	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 houses	case
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 houses	compound
6	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cool	obl
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cool	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the town					with stone houses; cool 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

yeah, the locals took him around and gave him food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 locals	det
4	locals	local	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	around	around	ADV	_	5 took	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take around	past	the locals		him = he			around property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	give	past	the locals not said here	food	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

lowkey yeah, the merchant took him to the stone houses and gave him gold and a fine feast every night

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
2	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 lowkey	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 houses	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 houses	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 houses	compound
11	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 feast	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 feast	det
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 feast	amod
19	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gold	conj
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	lowkey	merchant		the stone houses			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination
2	give	past	lowkey not said here	gold and a fine feast	merchant		night		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gold=Theme

Option 3

nah, the stone houses were falling apart and the merchant made him leave the town right away

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 falling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 houses	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 houses	compound
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 falling	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 falling	aux
7	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	apart	apart	ADV	_	7 falling	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchant	det
11	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 falling	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	obj
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leave	obj
17	right	right	ADV	_	18 away	advmod
18	away	away	ADV	_	7 falling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall apart	past · progressive	the stone houses		apart, away property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	make	past	the merchant	him = he		tree rules
3	leave	infinitive	him = he not said here	the town		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

lowkey yeah, the merchant took him there and treated him well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
2	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 lowkey	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 took	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 treated	cc
10	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 treated	obj
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 treated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	lowkey		merchant	there			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	treat	past	lowkey not said here		merchant			well property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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