Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince fli…

Did he have a clue how to get back down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: have, get back · To what, where: clue

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 clue	det
5	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 get	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
9	back	back	ADV	_	10 down	advmod
10	down	down	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	he	a clue					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient
2	get back	to-infinitive						down property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 never got told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 told	advmod
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · passive		he					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he never asked how

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 asked	advmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 asked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	past	he						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, he just kept fiddling with the peg and hoping for the best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fiddling	fiddle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 peg	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peg	det
9	peg	peg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fiddling	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hoping	cc
11	hoping	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fiddling	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 best	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 best	det
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 hoping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he		tree rules
2	fiddle	gerund	he not said here	with the peg	vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with peg=Theme
3	hope	gerund	he not said here	for the best	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for good=Theme

Option 4

Nah, nobody had ever told him how, and he never thought to ask anyone about it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 told	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 told	advmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 told	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 thought	advmod
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 ask	mark
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	xcomp
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 ask	obj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		nobody	him = he	ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
2	not think speech: other	past	he					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	he not said here		anyone		about it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient about it=Topic

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