Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Princess Parizade, part 68: the three…

Could she do the boy stuff, like bow and arrow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: do · To what, where: boy stuff

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 228 «Arabian Nights, The Princess Parizade, part 68: the three foundlings grow up, and a pilgrim names three wonders the princess must have» 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stuff	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuff	compound
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bow	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 bow	case
9	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 arrow	cc
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bow	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	could	she	the boy stuff				like bow and arrow	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she could shoot and throw a javelin, sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 shoot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shoot	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shoot	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shoot	aux
5	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 throw	cc
7	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shoot	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 javelin	det
9	javelin	javelin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 throw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	could	she						vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	throw	infinitive	she not said here	a javelin					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent javelin=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she could shoot and throw a javelin, sick, and she beat her brothers at both

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 shoot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shoot	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shoot	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shoot	aux
5	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 throw	cc
7	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shoot	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 javelin	det
9	javelin	javelin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 throw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 javelin	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 beat	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 beat	nsubj
15	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shoot	parataxis
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nmod:poss
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 beat	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 both	case
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	shoot	could	she			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	throw	infinitive	she not said here	a javelin		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent javelin=Theme
3	beat	past	she	her brothers	both	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brother=Theme

Option 3

Nah, she could only sing and dance, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sing	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sing	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 sing	advmod
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dance	cc
8	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sing	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sing	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	could	she					mate vocative	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	dance	infinitive	she not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, just cooking, sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cooking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 cooking	advmod
4	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sick	punct
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cooking	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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