Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hung…

Was the Barmecide mad after the smack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Barmecide · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 196 «Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hungry brother eats an imaginary feast, and the barber revives the dead hunchback» 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	4 mad	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Barmecide	det
3	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mad	nsubj
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 smack	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 smack	det
7	smack	smack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mad	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Barmecide				after the smack	mad 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

yes at first, but then he laughed and hugged him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 laughed	discourse
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 first	case
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 laughed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 laughed	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 laughed	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 laughed	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laughed	nsubj
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hugged	cc
10	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laughed	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hugged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he				then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hug	past	he not said here	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nope, he laughed and hugged him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hugged	cc
6	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hugged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hug	past	he not said here	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3

nope, he laughed and then ordered a new feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ordered	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 ordered	advmod
7	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 feast	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feast	amod
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ordered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	order	past	he not said here	a new feast			then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme

Option 4

nope, he yelled at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 yelled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yelled	nsubj
4	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	he					at him = he	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus

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