Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the oli…

Did the captain come right into the harbour on the way back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: captain · What happens: do, come · To what, where: captain, harbour

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 204 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the olives hide the gold and the talisman, and the prince is carried off» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 captain	det
3	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 captain	acl:relcl
5	right	right	ADV	_	8 harbour	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 harbour	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 harbour	det
8	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 way	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the captain		the harbour		on the way	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Eventuality
2	come	present	the captain not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yeah, he sailed straight in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sailed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	nsubj
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 in	advmod
6	in	in	ADV	_	4 sailed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	he						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he anchored off a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 anchored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 anchored	nsubj
4	anchored	anchor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 anchored	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anchored	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	anchor off	past	he	a bit					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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