Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

is schaibar nice to ahmed at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, ahm · To what, where: end

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1499 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 86: Ahmed fetches the lions' water, then meets Schaibar, the Fairy's giant brother» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nice	cop
2	schaibar	schaibar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nice	amod
3	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	SCONJ	_	5 ahmed	mark
5	ahmed	ahm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nice	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ahmed	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 nice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						nice property	tree rules
2	ahm	participle					at the end		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

yeah, he's totally into helping and gives ahmed a gift at the end

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 helping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 helping	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 helping	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 helping	aux
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 helping	advmod
6	into	into	SCONJ	_	7 helping	mark
7	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 ahmed	csubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gives	cc
9	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 helping	conj
10	ahmed	ahm	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 gift	det
12	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ahmed	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ahmed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	help	present · progressive	he			totally property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	he not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	ahm	past	helping	a gift	at the end		tree rules

Option 2

nah, he's kinda shady still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 shady	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shady	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shady	cop
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 shady	advmod
6	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	still	still	ADV	_	6 shady	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he				still	kinda, shady property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he's totally into helping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 helping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 helping	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 helping	aux
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 helping	advmod
6	into	into	SCONJ	_	7 helping	mark
7	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present · progressive	he					totally property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, he's totally into helping and even gives him gifts at the end

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 helping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 helping	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 helping	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 helping	aux
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 helping	advmod
6	into	into	SCONJ	_	7 helping	mark
7	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 gives	csubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 helping	cc
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 gives	advmod
10	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gives	iobj
12	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gives	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present · progressive	he					totally property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	helping	gifts	him = he		at the end		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gift=Theme at end=Asset

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