Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 53: Aladdin is spared, and h…

Was the crowd proper mad, climbing the walls and that?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be, climb · To what, where: crowd, walls

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 213 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 53: Aladdin is spared, and his palace flies home» 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 crowd	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	csubj
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 mad	advmod
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 climbing	punct
7	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 mad	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 climbing	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 climbing	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 climbing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the crowd					tree rules
2	climb	gerund		the walls					tree rules

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

nah, they were rioting in the streets and burning every shop in the market square

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 rioting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rioting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rioting	aux
5	rioting	riot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 streets	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 streets	det
8	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rioting	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 burning	cc
10	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 rioting	conj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 shop	det
12	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burning	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 square	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 square	det
15	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 square	compound
16	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	riot	past · progressive	they			the streets			tree rules
2	burn	gerund	they not said here	every shop		the market square			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shop=Theme

Option 2

yeah, they were cheering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cheering	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheering	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheering	aux
5	cheering	cheer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past · progressive	they						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

nah, they were sitting quietly in the square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sitting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 sitting	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 square	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 square	det
9	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	they			the square		quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in square=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they were scaling the walls to save him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scaling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scaling	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scaling	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scaling	aux
5	scaling	scale	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scaling	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 save	mark
9	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scaling	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scale	past · progressive	they	the walls					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Source
2	save	to-infinitive	they not said here	him = he					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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