Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king…

wait, Badoura blushing, was she actually flustered or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Badoura blushing

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 203 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king makes a stranger his heir, and a gardener's treasure is found» 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	_	4 blushing	punct
3	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blushing	compound
4	blushing	blushing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flustered	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flustered	cop
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flustered	nsubj
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 flustered	advmod
9	flustered	fluster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 flustered	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	Badoura blushing					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	she					actually, fluster 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, she felt shy about the lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 lie	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lie	det
8	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	she					about the lie; shy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she was faking the modesty, she was stressed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 faking	aux
3	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 modesty	det
5	modesty	modesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faking	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 faking	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stressed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stressed	aux:pass
9	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 faking	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	she	the modesty					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent modesty=Patient
2	stress	past · passive		she					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 3

nah, she was actually flustered by the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 flustered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flustered	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flustered	aux:pass
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 flustered	advmod
6	flustered	fluster	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flustered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fluster	past · passive	the king	she				actually property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, she was just shy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 shy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shy	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 shy	advmod
6	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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