Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

Ahmed forked out forty purses, no biggie, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ahmed · What happens: fork out · To what, where: forty purses

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 forked	nsubj
2	forked	fork	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 forked	compound:prt
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 purses	nummod
5	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 biggie	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 biggie	det
8	biggie	biggie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 purses	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 forked	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	2 forked	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 forked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fork out	past	Ahmed	forty purses and no biggie					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent purse=Theme

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

Nope, it was a bargain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 bargain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bargain	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bargain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bargain	det
6	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a bargain					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, that was the price

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 price	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 price	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 price	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 price	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 price	det
6	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	the price					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, he paid only ten purses because the seller gave him a discount

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 ten	advmod
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 purses	nummod
7	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 gave	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seller	det
10	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 discount	det
14	discount	discount	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he	ten purses					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Asset
2	give	past	the seller	a discount	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient discount=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, but he actually haggled it down from sixty purses to forty in the end

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 haggled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 haggled	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 haggled	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 haggled	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 haggled	advmod
6	haggled	haggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 haggled	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 haggled	compound:prt
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 purses	case
10	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 purses	nummod
11	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 haggled	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 forty	case
13	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 haggled	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 haggled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haggle down	past	he	it		sixty purses	in the end	to forty; actually property	tree rules

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