Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheh…

bro the vizir said he'd kill his own kid, no cap??

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, vizir · What happens: say, kill · To what, where: own kid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 162 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheherazade wins more days by telling a tale of a merchant facing a fierce genie» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vizir	det
3	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kill	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 kill	aux
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 kid	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kid	amod
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kill	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cap	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 cap	det
13	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kid	appos
14	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	bro						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill	would	vizir	vizir's own kid					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme

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

he said he'd have to obey the Sultan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 obey	mark
7	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 obey	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	would	he		tree rules
3	obey	to-infinitive	he not said here	the Sultan	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme

Option 2

he said he'd do it, because the Sultan had ordered it and he had no choice

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ordered	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 ordered	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sultan	det
10	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ordered	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ordered	aux
12	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 do	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ordered	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 choice	det
18	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	would	he	it	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	order	past · perfect	the Sultan	it	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	have	past	Sultan	no choice	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient

Option 3

he said he would obey the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 obey	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 obey	aux
5	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obey	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	obey	would	he	the king					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he said he'd have to obey the Sultan's orders no matter what happened

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 obey	mark
7	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 orders	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Sultan	case
11	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obey	obj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 matter	det
13	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 orders	appos
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 matter	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	would	he		tree rules
3	obey	to-infinitive	he not said here	the Sultan's orders	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
4	happen	past	no matter		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	order		the Sultan		nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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