Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 65: the Indian i…

did the princess eat much before the Indian came back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess, Indian · What happens: eat, come back

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 225 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 65: the Indian is killed and the princess pretends to be mad» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 princess	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Indian	det
8	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the princess						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come back	past	the Indian						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, she hadn't eaten since she left Bengal and was very weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 eaten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eaten	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eaten	advmod
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 left	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	advcl
10	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 left	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 weak	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 weak	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 weak	advmod
14	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eaten	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · perfect	she			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past	she	Bengal		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bengal=Theme
3	is	past	she not said here		weak property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, she barely touched the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 touched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	nsubj
4	barely	barely	ADV	_	5 touched	advmod
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bread	det
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	she	the bread				barely property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bread=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she'd barely eaten since Bengal, so she was weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 eaten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eaten	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
5	barely	barely	ADV	_	6 eaten	advmod
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	since	since	ADP	_	8 Bengal	case
8	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eaten	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 weak	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 weak	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 weak	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 weak	cop
13	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eaten	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	she				since Bengal	barely property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Bengal					weak property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, she ate plenty of fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fruit	case
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plenty	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	she	plenty of fruit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient

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