Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steal…

why did the gardener slam the gate so fast?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: gardener · What happens: slam · To what, where: gate

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 202 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steals the talisman and Badoura takes her husband's place» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 slam	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slam	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gardener	det
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slam	nsubj
5	slam	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slam	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 slam	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 slam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slam	past · do-support	the gardener	the gate				fast property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient

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

he was rude

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 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					rude property	tree rules

Option 2

the guards were coming now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guards	det
2	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 coming	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coming	aux
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	the guards				now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

idolaters were everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	idolaters	idolater	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 everywhere	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 everywhere	cop
3	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	idolaters					everywhere property	tree rules

Option 4

it was night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 night	cop
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	night					tree rules

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