Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 48: N…

did they actually reach Bagdad, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: reach · To what, where: Bagdad

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 208 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 48: Noureddin flees to Bagdad, and an old doorkeeper is tempted into drinking wine in the Caliph's pavilion» 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reach	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 reach	advmod
4	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Bagdad	bagdad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nah	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 reach	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past · do-support	they	Bagdad				actually property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bagdad=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

yup, they went ashore there at dawn and walked into the city to find the old doorkeeper

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 dawn	case
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walked	cc
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walked	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 find	mark
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 walked	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 doorkeeper	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 doorkeeper	amod
18	doorkeeper	doorkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they		there	dawn	yup vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	they not said here				into the city result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into city=Result
3	find	to-infinitive	they not said here	the old doorkeeper				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doorkeeper=Topic

Option 2

yes, they landed at the port

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 landed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 landed	nsubj
4	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 port	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 port	det
7	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 landed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	they			the port			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yup, they went ashore there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they			there		yup vocative; ashore property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nope, they sailed past it to Basra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 sailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	nsubj
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Basra	case
8	Basra	Basra	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obl

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

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