Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 65: the Indian i…

was the princess actually mad or was she just acting the mad one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, act · To what, where: princess, mad one

This is test 5 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 princess	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	csubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 mad	advmod
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 acting	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 acting	aux
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 acting	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 acting	advmod
10	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 mad	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 acting	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the princess					tree rules
2	act	past · progressive	princess	the mad one					vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality

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

she was genuinely mad at first then pretended once the doctors came in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	cop
3	genuinely	genuinely	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 mad	obl
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 pretended	advmod
8	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	conj
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doctors	det
11	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pretended	advcl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		genuinely, mad property	tree rules
2	pretend	past	she not said here	then		tree rules
3	come in	past	the doctors			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she was faking it, fam, to avoid marrying him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 faking	aux
3	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faking	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fam	punct
6	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 avoid	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 avoid	mark
9	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 faking	advcl
10	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 avoid	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 marrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	she	it	fam obl	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	avoid	to-infinitive	she not said here			vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	marry	gerund	she not said here	him = he		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

she was faking it, fam, cos she wouldn't break faith with the Persian prince

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 faking	aux
3	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faking	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fam	punct
6	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 break	punct
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 break	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 break	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 break	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 break	advmod
12	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 faking	advcl
13	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 break	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 prince	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prince	det
16	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 prince	amod
17	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	she	it				fam obl	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	not break	would	she	faith				with the Persian prince	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent faith=Patient with prince=Instrument

Option 4

she was faking it to get out of stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 faking	aux
3	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faking	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 faking	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 stuff	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 stuff	case
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	she	it					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	get out	to-infinitive	she not said here	stuff					tree rules

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