Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the oli…

Wait, so the old man died before the prince got to say bye?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old man, prince · What happens: wait, die, get, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 died	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 died	nsubj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 got	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 died	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 got	xcomp
14	bye	bye	INTJ	_	13 say	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	past	the old man	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	get	past	the prince	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bye=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he breathed his last just then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 breathed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 breathed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 breathed	nsubj
4	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 last	nmod:poss
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 breathed	obj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 then	advmod
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 breathed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	past	he	his last			then		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he went just as the prince arrived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 arrived	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 arrived	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrived	nsubj
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arrive	past	the prince						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 later	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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