Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…

Mate, what did the robbers do to him?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, robbers · What happens: do · To what, where: Mate

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 195 «Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar takes revenge, then is robbed and banished; Schacabac meets a Barmecide» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robbers	det
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the robbers		Mate				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

stripped him, beat him, left him naked in the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stripped	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 beat	punct
4	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 stripped	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 stripped	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	obj
9	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 left	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sand	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sand	det
12	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strip	past	him = he			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	beat	infinitive	him = he			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
3	leave	past	him = he	the sand	naked property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sand=Location

Option 2

took it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 took	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

beat him up badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 beat	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 beat	compound:prt
4	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 beat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat up	imperative	you not said here	him = he				badly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

stripped him, left him naked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stripped	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 stripped	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strip	past		him = he					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	leave	past		him = he				naked property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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