Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the…

Did the dervish actually grumble about giving him loads?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, grumble, give · To what, where: dervish, loads, him

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 215 «Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the greedy narrator takes more camels and begs for the magic ointment» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grumble	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dervish	det
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 grumble	advmod
5	grumble	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 giving	mark
7	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 grumble	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 giving	iobj
9	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 giving	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grumble	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the dervish			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Eventuality
2	grumble speech: other	present			actually property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	gerund	loads	him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient load=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he just went along with it, dead chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chill	punct
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chill	amod
11	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go along	past	he	dead chill				with it; along property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary

Option 2

Yeah, he grumbled and sulked all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grumbled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grumbled	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grumbled	nsubj
4	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sulked	cc
6	sulked	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grumbled	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sulked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	past	he						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sulk	past	he not said here				day		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yeah, he was proper grumpy about it and went on about the poor for ages after

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 grumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grumpy	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grumpy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grumpy	cop
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 grumpy	advmod
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grumpy	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grumpy	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 poor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 poor	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 went	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 ages	case
16	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl
17	after	after	ADP	_	10 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					about it; grumpy, properly property	tree rules
2	go on	past	he not said here				for ages	about the poor	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about poor=Location

Option 4

Nah, he refused and kicked up a fuss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kicked	cc
6	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 kicked	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fuss	det
9	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kicked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	kick up	past	he not said here	a fuss					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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