Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince f…

Mate, why did the Sultan lock up the Indian?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: lock up · To what, where: Indian

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 224 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince flies home, and the angry Indian plots revenge» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lock	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 lock	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lock	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lock	nsubj
7	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 lock	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Indian	det
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lock	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock up	past · do-support	the Sultan	the Indian					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

In case his son was lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 son	case
2	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 son	nmod:poss
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive						in his son	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in son=Eventuality

Option 2

Cos he feared thieves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feared	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	Cos	thieves					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thief=Stimulus

Option 3

In case his son was lost, so he kept him locked up for a long time

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 son	case
2	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 son	nmod:poss
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 kept	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	obj
12	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lost	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 locked	compound:prt
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 time	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive				in his son	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in son=Eventuality
2	keep	past	he	him = he			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	lock up	participle			time		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

In case his son was lost on the long journey back home, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 son	case
2	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 son	nmod:poss
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 journey	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 journey	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 journey	amod
10	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
11	back	back	ADV	_	12 home	advmod
12	home	home	ADV	_	6 lost	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive				the long journey		in his son; mate vocative; home property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in son=Eventuality

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