Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: C…

so why did Cassim's wife put suet in the measure?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: put · To what, where: suet, measure

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1470 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: Cassim is killed and the thieves send a spy» 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	_	7 put	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 put	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux
4	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Cassim	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	nsubj
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	suet	suet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 measure	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 measure	det
11	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · do-support	Cassim's wife	suet		the measure			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent suet=Theme in measure=Destination

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

to test his wife's honesty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 honesty	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 wife	case
6	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		his wife's honesty					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honesty=Theme

Option 2

to check on the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 gold	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gold	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive				the gold			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on gold=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to spy on Ali Baba's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 spy	mark
2	spy	spy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 wife	case
4	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Baba	compound
5	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wife	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Baba	case
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spy	to-infinitive						on Ali Baba's wife	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

to hide the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		the gold					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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