Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badou…

Hold up, the hunchback sneezed and came back to life, that's proper mad, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, hunchback, that · What happens: hold up, sneeze, come back, be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 197 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura, part 37: the prince refuses to marry and is locked in a tower» 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sneezed	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hunchback	det
5	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneezed	nsubj
6	sneezed	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sneezed	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 life	case
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 back	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mad	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 mad	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 mad	cop
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mad	amod
16	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hold	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mad	punct
18	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Hold	discourse
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	sneeze	past	the hunchback		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come back	past	the hunchback not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	that	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

Yeah, he was dead ages, then he got up again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 ages	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ages	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ages	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ages	amod
6	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ages	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 got	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 got	compound:prt
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	dead ages					tree rules
2	get up	past	dead ages				then; again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nah, he just nodded off for a bit, no biggie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 nodded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nodded	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 nodded	advmod
5	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 nodded	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 bit	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nodded	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 biggie	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 biggie	det
12	biggie	biggie	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod off	past	he					for a bit	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, that was well wild, he was dead for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 wild	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wild	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 wild	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wild	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wild	advmod
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dead	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dead	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wild	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 ages	case
12	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wild	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that				for ages	well, wild property	tree rules
2	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he just fainted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fainted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fainted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 fainted	advmod
5	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	past	he						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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