Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 3: the me…

Did the wife actually turn the kid into a calf, or was that a joke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, turn, be · To what, where: wife, kid, joke

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 163 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 3: the merchant goes back to the fountain, and an old man begins his tale» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kid	det
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 calf	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 calf	det
10	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 joke	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 joke	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 joke	cop
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 joke	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 joke	det
16	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the wife		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
2	turn	present	the kid	into a calf result; actually property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent kid=Theme into calf=Result
3	is a	past	a joke		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

Nah, it was a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a joke					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, she did it with a potion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 potion	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 potion	det
8	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she	it				with a potion	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She did it for real, with magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 real	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 magic	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 magic	case
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	She	it				for real	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

She did it for real, with powerful magic that nobody in the house could undo

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 real	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 magic	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 magic	case
8	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 magic	amod
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 undo	obj
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 undo	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nobody	nmod
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 undo	aux
16	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 magic	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	She	it				for real	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	undo	could	nobody	powerful magic					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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