Test 11 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Sham Prince, part 1: L…

Did Labakan actually stab Omar in his sleep?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Labakan · What happens: stab, sleep · To what, where: Omar, sleep

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 716 «Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Sham Prince, part 1: Labakan steals a robe, sets off as a prince, and robs his friend» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stab	aux
2	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stab	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 stab	advmod
4	stab	stab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Omar	Omar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stab	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sleep	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sleep	nmod:poss
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stab	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past · do-support	Labakan	Omar		Labakan's sleep		actually property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent omar=Patient in sleep=Location
2	sleep		Labakan						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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, he didn't, because the dagger slipped from his hand and he ran out of the tent

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 slipped	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 slipped	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dagger	det
9	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slipped	nsubj
10	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slipped	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ran	nsubj
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 tent	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tent	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tent	det
20	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slip	past	the dagger		from dagger's hand	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from hand=Co-Patient
3	run	past	dagger	the tent		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out tent=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he stabbed Omar once in the arm but then ran off when he heard footsteps outside

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stabbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stabbed	nsubj
4	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Omar	Omar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stabbed	obj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 stabbed	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 arm	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 arm	det
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stabbed	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 ran	advmod
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stabbed	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 ran	compound:prt
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 heard	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stabbed	advcl
17	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heard	obj
18	outside	outside	ADV	_	16 heard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	he	Omar	the arm		once property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent omar=Patient in arm=Location
2	run off	past	he not said here			then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	Omar	footsteps			outside property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he didn't, he couldn't do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	could · past · do-support	he	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Yeah, he tried but he missed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 missed	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 missed	nsubj
7	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	he						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	miss	past	he						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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