Test 13 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, Peter and the Golden-haired Maiden: Pete…

so what does Abu Nowas do when he's skint, innit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Abu · What happens: do, be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 706 «Brown Fairy Book, Peter and the Golden-haired Maiden: Peter calls his dogs and wins back the girl» 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	_	6 do	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
4	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
5	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Abu	flat
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 skint	advcl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 skint	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 skint	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 skint	cop
10	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	INTJ	_	10 skint	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	Abu						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is	present	Abu					skint 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 · ← Mova's choice

He worries about going back to the Sultan and being thrown out of the palace

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worries	nsubj
2	worries	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	4 going	mark
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 worries	advcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Sultan	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sultan	det
8	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 back	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thrown	cc
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 thrown	aux:pass
11	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 going	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 palace	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	worry	present	He		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	go back	gerund	He not said here		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	throw	gerund · passive	He not said here	the palace	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: out palace=Destination

Option 2

He tries to sell his old cloak now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tries	nsubj
2	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sell	mark
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tries	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cloak	nmod:poss
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cloak	amod
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sell	obj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present	He						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his old cloak			now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme

Option 3

He sits in the market all day worrying about going back to the Sultan with no money

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 market	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 market	det
5	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl:unmarked
8	worrying	worry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sits	advcl
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 going	mark
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 worrying	advcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Sultan	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sultan	det
14	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 back	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 money	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 money	det
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	He	the market	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in market=Location
2	worry	gerund	He not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	go back	gerund	He not said here			with no money	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He worries about going back to the Sultan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worries	nsubj
2	worries	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	4 going	mark
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 worries	advcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Sultan	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sultan	det
8	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	worry	present	He						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	go back	gerund	He not said here					to the Sultan result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sultan=Result

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