Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince fli…

Was the prince well mad when the Indian went for the princess?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Indian · What happens: be, go · To what, where: prince

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» 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 prince	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	csubj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 mad	advmod
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 went	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Indian	det
8	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 princess	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the prince					tree rules
2	go	past	the Indian					for the princess	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for princess=Beneficiary

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 · ✓ the right answer

He was dead angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 angry	amod
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					angry property	tree rules

Option 2

He was well narked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 narked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 narked	aux:pass
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 narked	advmod
4	narked	nark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nark	past · passive		He				well property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He was absolutely livid and wanted to fight the Indian right then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 livid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 livid	cop
3	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	4 livid	advmod
4	livid	livid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wanted	cc
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 livid	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fight	mark
8	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Indian	det
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fight	obj
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 then	advmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fight	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			absolutely, livid property	tree rules
2	want	past	He not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the Indian	then		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Co-Agent

Option 4

He was so cross he nearly threw the Indian out of the palace window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cross	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 cross	advmod
4	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threw	nsubj
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 threw	advmod
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Indian	det
9	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 threw	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	14 window	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 window	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 window	compound
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	cross					tree rules
2	throw	past	he	the Indian		the palace window		nearly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent indian=Theme out window=Destination

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