Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secre…

Wait, the wife knew he followed her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wife, he · What happens: wait, know, follow · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 followed	nsubj
7	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 followed	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	the wife		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	follow	past	he	wife	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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

Yeah, she had seen him from the window the whole time and was waiting for him to move

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 seen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obl:unmarked
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 waiting	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 waiting	aux
15	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 seen	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 waiting	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 move	mark
19	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 waiting	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	she	him = he	the window	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	wait	past · progressive	she not said here				for him = he	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	move	to-infinitive	she not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she got it the second he spoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spoke	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 second	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 got	xcomp
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she	it				second property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	past	he						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, she only found out the next morning when the neighbours told her he was missing

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 found	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 morning	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 morning	amod
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl:unmarked
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 told	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 neighbours	det
12	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 missing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 missing	cop
17	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	find out	past	she		morning		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the neighbours	her = she			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is	past	he			missing property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, she never knew until later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 knew	advmod
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	until	until	ADP	_	7 later	case
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past	she					late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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