Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secre…

Honestly, how does it end, is he dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, he · What happens: end, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 217 «Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secret midnight feast, a curse, and a dog in a cookshop» 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	10 dead	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 end	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 end	advmod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 end	aux
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 end	nsubj
6	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Honestly	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dead	nsubj
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present · do-support	it						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	present	he					dead, honestly property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 lives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	he						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he is killed by the butcher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 killed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 killed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 killed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 killed	aux:pass
5	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 butcher	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 butcher	det
8	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 killed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present · passive	the butcher	he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he escapes to the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 escapes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 escapes	nsubj
4	escapes	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 hills	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 escapes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	present	he			the hills			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the story keeps going, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 keeps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	nsubj
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keeps	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the story						tree rules
2	go	gerund	the story not said here					mate vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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