Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince f…

Dude, what did the princess totally love doing when nothing was dangerous?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, princess, nothing · What happens: do, love, be · To what, where: princess

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 love	advmod
8	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 princess	acl:relcl
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 love	xcomp
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 dangerous	mark
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 dangerous	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dangerous	cop
13	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 doing	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	the princess		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	love	present	the princess not said here		totally property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do not said to happen	gerund	the princess not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	nothing		dangerous property	tree rules

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

Shopping, she was mad for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shopping	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Shopping					for it; mad property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hunting, she was mad for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hunting	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hunting					for it; mad property	tree rules

Option 3

Painting, she was into it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Painting	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 it	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 it	cop
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Painting	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	Painting not said here		Painting			tree rules

Option 4

Hunting, she was mad for it, every single day when it was safe

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hunting	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	conj
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 safe	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 safe	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 safe	cop
15	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hunting					for it; mad property	tree rules
2	is	past	Hunting					safe property	tree rules

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