Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Alnaschar, part 34: the broken glass, the…

Did the brother fight back when they cut him up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, they · What happens: fight back, cut up · To what, where: brother

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 194 «Arabian Nights, Alnaschar, part 34: the broken glass, the gold, and the trap below the house» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fight	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fight	nsubj
4	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 fight	advmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 cut	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cut	nsubj
8	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fight	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cut	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 cut	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight back	past · do-support	the brother						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cut up	present	they	brother					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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 fought them with his fists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 fists	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fists	nmod:poss
8	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	he	them = they				with his fists	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he tried to run to the door but they caught him at the stairs and held him down

The tree, 19 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	to	to	PART	_	6 run	mark
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 caught	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caught	nsubj
12	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caught	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 stairs	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stairs	det
16	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 caught	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 held	cc
18	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 held	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 held	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	he				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			to the door result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result
3	catch	past	they	him = he	the stairs		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at stair=Asset
4	hold down	past	he not said here	him = he			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he just stayed still, couldn't reply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stayed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reply	advcl
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stayed	punct
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 reply	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 reply	advmod
10	reply	reply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he				still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not reply speech: assert	could							vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he begged them to stop crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
8	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he	them = they	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	gerund	he not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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