Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

Sultan was gutted about his wife, so what did he do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: gut, do · To what, where: Sultan

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 233 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home» 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	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gutted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gutted	aux:pass
3	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gutted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gutted	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		Sultan				about Sultan's wife	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	do	past · do-support	Sultan						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

walked to the mosque

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 mosque	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mosque	det
4	mosque	mosque	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past						to the mosque result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mosque=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

dragged her out of prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 dragged	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 prison	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 prison	case
5	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past		her = she		prison			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out prison=Initial_Location

Option 3

dragged her out of the narrow prison with his own hand and wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 dragged	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	7 prison	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 prison	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prison	det
6	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prison	amod
7	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dragged	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 hand	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prison	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wept	cc
13	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 dragged	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past		her = she		the narrow prison with his own hand			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out prison=Initial_Location
2	weep	past							vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

went on foot to the great mosque and dragged her out of prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 foot	case
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 went	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 mosque	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mosque	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mosque	amod
7	mosque	mosque	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dragged	cc
9	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 went	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dragged	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	13 prison	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 prison	case
13	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past				foot		to the great mosque	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mosque=Initial_Location
2	drag	past		her = she		prison			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out prison=Initial_Location

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