Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the…

Was the vizir totally shocked too?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, shock · To what, where: vizir

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vizir	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vizir	det
3	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shocked	obl
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 shocked	advmod
5	shocked	shock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 shocked	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shocked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the vizir					tree rules
2	shock	past						totally property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yes, he was so amazed that he could not speak for a long time

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 amazed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 amazed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 amazed	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 amazed	advmod
6	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 speak	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 speak	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 speak	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 speak	advmod
11	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 amazed	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					amazed property	tree rules
2	not speak speech: other	could	he				time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No, he was merely puzzled by it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 puzzled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 puzzled	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 puzzled	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 puzzled	aux:pass
5	merely	merely	ADV	_	6 puzzled	advmod
6	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 puzzled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	puzzle	past · passive		he				by it; merely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3

Yes, he was confused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 confused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 confused	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 confused	cop
5	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					confused property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, he was lost in astonishment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 astonishment	case
7	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		he		astonishment			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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