Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheh…

lowkey wild, the genie's about to chop the merchant's head off, what does the merchant ask for?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: merchant · What happens: chop off, ask · To what, where: head

This is test 7 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 lowkey	conj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 about	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 genie	det
5	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 about	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 genie	case
7	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 lowkey	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 chop	mark
9	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 about	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchant	det
11	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 merchant	case
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chop	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	9 chop	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 ask	obj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ask	aux
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 merchant	det
19	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ask	nsubj
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 chop	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	20 ask	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	to-infinitive		the merchant's head					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	present · do-support	the merchant						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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

a full year to settle his debts and visit his family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 year	amod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 settle	mark
5	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 year	acl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 debts	nmod:poss
7	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 settle	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 visit	cc
9	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 settle	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 family	nmod:poss
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle	to-infinitive		his debts					vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme debt=Location
2	visit	infinitive		his family					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Co-Agent

Option 2

a day to see his family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 day	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 family	nmod:poss
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		his family					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus

Option 3

a year to settle things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 settle	mark
4	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 year	acl
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 settle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle	to-infinitive		things					vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a year to say goodbye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 year	acl
5	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		goodbye					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic

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