Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura,…

Okay, so what was the prince's real problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real problem · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 200 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura, part 40: Marzavan's ship sinks near the palace, and he gives the sick prince new hope» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 what	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 problem	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 prince	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 problem	amod
10	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the prince's real problem						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

He was ill and had been lost in grief over a dead love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ill	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lost	cc
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 lost	aux:pass
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ill	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 grief	case
9	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 love	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 love	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 love	amod
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					ill property	tree rules
2	lose	past · perfect · passive	He not said here			grief		over a dead love	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in grief=Eventuality

Option 2

He was mentally ill from a curse and lost his way at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ill	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	mentally	mentally	ADV	_	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 curse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 curse	det
7	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ill	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lost	cc
9	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 sea	case
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			a curse		ill, mentally property	tree rules
2	lose	past	He not said here	his way		sea			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

Option 3

He was bitten by a snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bitten	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bitten	aux:pass
3	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 snake	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bitten	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past · passive	a snake	He					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was ill and lost in grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ill	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lost	cc
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ill	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 grief	case
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					ill property	tree rules
2	lose	participle	He not said here			grief			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in grief=Eventuality

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