Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

what's schaibar's deal, is he creepy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 deal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deal	cop
3	schaibar	schaibar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 schaibar	case
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 creepy	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 deal	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 creepy	cop
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 creepy	nsubj
9	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 creepy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		schaibar's deal					tree rules
2	is	present	he					creepy 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 · ← Mova's choice

hump back, but he's rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 hump	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rude	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 rude	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rude	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rude	cop
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 hump	conj

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

Option 2

hump back, but honestly he's kind and helpful too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 hump	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kind	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 kind	cc
5	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	8 kind	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kind	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kind	cop
8	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 hump	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 helpful	cc
10	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kind	conj
11	too	too	ADV	_	8 kind	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					honestly, kind property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

hump back, but he's kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 hump	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 kind	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kind	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 hump	conj

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

Option 4

hump back, but he seems kind and helpful too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 hump	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seems	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 seems	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seems	nsubj
6	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 hump	acl:relcl
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seems	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 helpful	cc
9	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	6 seems	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	he	hump not said here				kind property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hump=Attribute

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