Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secre…

Was the cookshop man nice to him at first?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: cookshop man

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 man	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	cookshop	cookshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nice	csubj
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nice	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 first	case
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 nice	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the cookshop man					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, he kicked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	nsubj
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	he	him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he chased the other dogs off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chased	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj
4	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dogs	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dogs	amod
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chased	obj
8	off	off	ADV	_	4 chased	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	he	the other dogs				off property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he gave him some bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bread	det
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	some bread	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he threw stones at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	stones				at him = he	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at he=Destination

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