Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

Was the magician dodgy or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magician · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1498 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 85: the Sultan asks for a magic tent and healing water» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dodgy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dodgy	nsubj
4	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 nah	cc
6	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dodgy	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dodgy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the magician					dodgy 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

Nah, she was honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 honest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 honest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 honest	cop
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					honest property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She gave the Sultan sneaky advice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 advice	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 advice	compound
5	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 advice	amod
6	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	She	the Sultan sneaky advice					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme

Option 3

She told the Sultan tricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tricks	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tricks	compound
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	She	the Sultan tricks					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trick=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She gave the Sultan sneaky advice to ask for many gifts from his son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 advice	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 advice	compound
5	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 advice	amod
6	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ask	mark
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 gifts	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gifts	amod
11	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ask	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 son	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 son	nmod:poss
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	She	the Sultan sneaky advice					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	She not said here					for many gifts; from his son	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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