Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

Mate, was the ivory tube mint or just rubbish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: ivory tube mint

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mint	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mint	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mint	det
5	ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mint	amod
6	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mint	compound
7	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 rubbish	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 rubbish	advmod
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mint	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate	the ivory tube mint or rubbish					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

It was cheap, he thought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cheap	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheap	cop
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheap	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					cheap property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was mint, he reckoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mint	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mint	cop
3	mint	mint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reckoned	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reckoned	nsubj
6	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mint	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					mint property	tree rules
2	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, it was rubbish and the crier had cheated him badly, he reckoned

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 cheated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rubbish	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rubbish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rubbish	cop
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cheated	nsubj:pass
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crier	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crier	det
8	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rubbish	conj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cheated	aux
10	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 reckoned	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cheated	obj
12	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 cheated	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cheated	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reckoned	nsubj
15	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	rubbish and the crier		tree rules
2	cheat	past · perfect · passive		rubbish and the crier	badly property	tree rules
3	reckon	past	he			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It was a bit dodgy but he reckoned the price was still fair for a rare thing

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dodgy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dodgy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dodgy	obl:unmarked
5	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 reckoned	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reckoned	nsubj
8	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dodgy	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 price	det
10	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fair	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fair	cop
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 fair	advmod
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reckoned	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 thing	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fair	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		a bit obl:unmarked; dodgy property	tree rules
2	reckon	past	he			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the price	still	for a rare thing; fair property	tree rules

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