Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63:…

Was the princess proper trying to get some more kip?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, try, get · To what, where: more kip

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 223 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63: the prince tells his flight and dines with the princess» 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 proper	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proper	nsubj
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 proper	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 kip	det
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 kip	amod
10	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 proper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess		proper property	tree rules
2	try	gerund	the princess not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	some more kip		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kip=Stimulus

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

Yes, she kept trying but it didn't work at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 work	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 work	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 work	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 work	advmod
10	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she		tree rules
2	try	gerund	she not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	not work	past · do-support	it	at all	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme

Option 2

Nah, she just got up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 got	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	she						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, but it didn't work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 work	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 work	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 work	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 work	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 work	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 work	advmod
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	past · do-support	it						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, she tried again and again but it didn't work in the end

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 tried	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 again	cc
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 again	conj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 work	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 work	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 work	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 work	advmod
12	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	she				again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not work	past · do-support	it				in the end		vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in end=Theme

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