Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

so basically the bird was on her side now?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird · What happens: be · To what, where: side

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 230 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, part 70: Parizade wins the bird and the Golden Water» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 basically	advmod
2	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 side	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 side	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 side	nmod:poss
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 side	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 side	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bird			bird's side	now	basically 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

nah, it flew straight home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 home	advmod
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	it					home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it swore to serve her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 serve	mark
6	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swore	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 serve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	it						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	serve	to-infinitive		her = she					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute

Option 3

yeah, it was her pet snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 snake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 snake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 snake	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 snake	nmod:poss
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snake	compound
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	her pet snake					tree rules

Option 4

nah, it hated her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	it	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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