Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the…

Hold up, what did the lamp do with the palace?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: hold up, do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 212 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the princess into giving up the lamp, and the palace vanishes to Africa» 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lamp	det
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	parataxis
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	do	past · do-support						with the palace	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Carried it off to Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carried	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Carried	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Africa	case
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past		it	Africa				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to africa=Destination

Option 2

Dropped it in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Dropped	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past		it		the sea			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sea=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It carried the whole palace away over the desert to a distant land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 palace	amod
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	2 carried	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 desert	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 desert	det
9	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 land	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 land	det
12	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 land	amod
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	It	the whole palace		the desert		to a distant land; away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Theme to land=Destination

Option 4

Moved it to a nearby hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Moved	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 hill	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hill	det
5	nearby	nearby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hill	amod
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past		it		a nearby hill			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to hill=Trajectory

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