Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63:…

What did the maids reckon about the prince, honestly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maids · What happens: do, reckon

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maids	det
4	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 prince	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 honestly	punct
10	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						honestly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	the maids					about the prince	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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

He's a laugh, she should wed him

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 laugh	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 laugh	det
4	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wed	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 wed	aux
8	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laugh	parataxis
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a laugh					tree rules
2	wed	should	she	him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He's mint, she should wed him

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	3 mint	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mint	cop
3	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mint	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wed	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wed	aux
7	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mint	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	mint					tree rules
2	wed	should	she	him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

He's fit, she should marry him

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	3 fit	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fit	cop
3	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 marry	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 marry	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 marry	aux
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fit	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					fit property	tree rules
2	marry	should	she	him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

He's rubbish

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	3 rubbish	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rubbish	cop
3	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	rubbish					tree rules

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