Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

yo, why's the sultan so salty at every girl?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sultan · What happens: be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 161 «Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl offers herself to the sultan» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 salty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 salty	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 salty	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sultan	det
6	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 salty	nsubj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 salty	advmod
8	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 girl	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 salty	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 salty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sultan					at every girl; salty 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 · ✓ the right answer

cause his wife totally played him, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	obj
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 played	advmod
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wife	acl:relcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	1 cause	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here	his wife					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wife=Patient
2	play	past	his wife not said here	him = he				totally property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

cause his wife played him with some bloke from the palace, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 played	ccomp
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bloke	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 bloke	det
8	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 palace	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive	his wife not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	play	past	his wife	him = he		the palace and innit		with some bloke	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

'cause his wife played him, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 cause	punct
2	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cause	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cause	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 cause	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	play	past	his wife	him = he					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

cause his wife totally played him over and over, innit, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	nsubj
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 played	advmod
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	obj
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 played	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 over	cc
9	over	over	ADV	_	7 over	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	INTJ	_	1 cause	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here					mate vocative	tree rules
2	play	past	his wife	him = he				over, totally property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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