Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the oli…

Did the captain just rock up at dawn, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do up · To what, where: captain

This is test 3 · ★ 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	just	just	ADV	_	5 rock	advmod
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
6	up	up	ADP	_	1 Did	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 dawn	case
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do up	past		the captain			dawn	rock obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Eventuality

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, he came by boat with some of his men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 some	advcl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 boat	case
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 some	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 men	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 men	nmod:poss
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 some	nmod

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

Option 2

Nah, he waited on the ship till the afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 waited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ship	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl
8	till	till	ADP	_	10 afternoon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 afternoon	det
10	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	he			the ship	afternoon		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ship=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, with his sailors at the garden door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sailors	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sailors	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 sailors	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sailors	nmod:poss
5	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	compound
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sailors	nmod

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

Option 4

Yeah, him and a whole gang of sailors turned up at the garden door before the sun was up

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 him	punct
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gang	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gang	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gang	amod
7	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 him	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sailors	case
9	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gang	nmod
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 turned	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	compound
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 up	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 up	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 up	cop
20	up	up	ADV	_	10 turned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	him = he			the garden door			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location
2	is	past	the sun					up property	tree rules

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