Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Hunchback, part 32: a dea…

wait, the merchant was mad drunk right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, drink · To what, where: merchant

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 192 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Hunchback, part 32: a dead hunchback is passed from house to house, and three innocent men nearly hang» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drunk	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drunk	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drunk	aux:pass
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drunk	amod
7	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 wait	advcl
8	right	right	ADV	_	7 drunk	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drink	past · passive		the merchant				right property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

fr, he was totally sober

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sober	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sober	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sober	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 sober	advmod
6	sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fr					sober, totally property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

fr, he was wasted but still sober enough to see the sunrise coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wasted	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wasted	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wasted	aux:pass
5	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 sober	cc
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 sober	advmod
8	sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wasted	conj
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 sober	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wasted	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sunrise	det
13	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 see	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	waste	past · passive	fr		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	see	to-infinitive		sunrise	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come	gerund			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

fr, he was drunk but he could still walk to the bath fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drunk	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drunk	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drunk	cop
5	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 walk	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walk	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 walk	aux
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 walk	advmod
10	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 drunk	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 bath	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bath	det
13	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	obl
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 walk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fr					drunk property	tree rules
2	walk	could	he				still	to the bath result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bath=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he was smashed and kinda slurring his words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 smashed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smashed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smashed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smashed	cop
5	smashed	smashed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slurring	cc
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	8 slurring	advmod
8	slurring	slur	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 smashed	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 words	nmod:poss
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slurring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		smashed property	tree rules
2	slur	gerund	he not said here	his words	kinda property	tree rules
3	word		his = he			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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