Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

innit the sultan's wife was the total worst, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wife · What happens: innit, be · To what, where: total worst

This is test 11 · ★ 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	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sultan	det
3	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 worst	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 sultan	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 worst	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 worst	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 worst	det
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 worst	amod
9	worst	worst	NOUN	_	1 innit	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 innit	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 innit	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is a	past	wife	the sultan's total worst					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, she betrayed him, big time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 betrayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 betrayed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 betrayed	nsubj
4	betrayed	betray	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 betrayed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 time	punct
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 betrayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	betray	past	she	him = he			time		tree rules

Option 2

yeah, she cheated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cheated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cheated	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheated	nsubj
4	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past	she						vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she deceived him big time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 deceived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deceived	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 deceived	nsubj
4	deceived	deceive	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 deceived	obj
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deceived	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deceive	past	she	him = he			time		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

yeah, she fooled him right badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fooled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fooled	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fooled	nsubj
4	fooled	fool	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 fooled	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 badly	advmod
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fooled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past	she	him = he				badly property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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