Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the oli…

Did the prince just give up and go home then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give up, go

This is test 6 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 give	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 go	cc
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 give	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 go	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past · do-support							vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	infinitive					then	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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, he went back to the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ship	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	he					to the ship result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ship=Result

Option 2

Yeah, he sold the garden and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	the garden					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme
2	leave	participle	he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he hired the garden and stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hired	nsubj
4	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hired	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stayed	cc
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hired	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire	past	he	the garden					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme
2	stay	past	he not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he went to the quay, but then came back and hired the garden to stay

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	to	to	ADP	_	7 quay	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 quay	det
7	quay	quay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hired	cc
14	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hired	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 stay	mark
18	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hired	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	he		the quay		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to quay=Initial_Location
2	come back	past	he not said here			then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hire	past	he not said here	the garden			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme
4	stay	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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