Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura,…

Wait, was Marzavan's boat a total wreck?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: total wreck, boat

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boat	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boat	cop
4	Marzavan	Marzavan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 boat	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Marzavan	case
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wreck	det
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wreck	amod
9	wreck	wreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl:unmarked
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	a total wreck					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		Marzavan's boat					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

Yeah, it broke on rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 broke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 rocks	case
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	it			rocks			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it sank far out at sea and he was rescued by fishermen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sank	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sank	nsubj
4	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 out	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	4 sank	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sank	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rescued	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rescued	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rescued	aux:pass
12	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sank	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 fishermen	case
14	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rescued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	it			sea		out property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	rescue	past · passive	fishermen	he					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it sank by the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sank	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sank	nsubj
4	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	it					by the palace	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nah, it stayed afloat and he sailed it back home to Torf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	afloat	afloat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sailed	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sailed	nsubj
8	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sailed	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	11 home	advmod
11	home	home	ADV	_	8 sailed	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Torf	case
13	Torf	Torf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it					afloat property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sail	past	he	it	Torf			home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

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