Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the…

What did the magician even do with the lamp once he had it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, have · To what, where: magician

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 magician	det
4	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 lamp	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lamp	det
9	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
10	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the magician	with the lamp	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Eventuality
2	do	present				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	he	magician		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

He kissed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	He	it					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He rubbed it and the genie came out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 genie	det
6	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	conj
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	He	it					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	come out	past	the genie					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3

He tossed it in the fire and waited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tossed	nsubj
2	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tossed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tossed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 waited	cc
8	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tossed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	He	it		the fire			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fire=Destination
2	wait	past	He not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He hid it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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