Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 3: the me…

Was the steward's daughter, like, a proper witch or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: daughter

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 daughter	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 steward	det
3	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 steward	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 witch	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	11 witch	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 witch	det
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 witch	amod
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	appos
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 witch	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 daughter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the steward's daughter					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 knew magic and changed him back into a boy after he'd been a calf

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 changed	cc
7	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 changed	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 changed	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 boy	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 changed	obl
13	after	after	ADP	_	18 calf	case
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 calf	nsubj
15	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 calf	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 calf	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 calf	det
18	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	she			magic property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	change back	past	she not said here	him = he		into a boy result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into boy=Result
3	is	past · perfect	boy		after a calf		tree rules

Option 2

Nah, she was just clever with herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 clever	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 clever	advmod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 herbs	case
8	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clever	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					with herbs; clever property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, she knew real magic, and she used it to change her son back into a man at once

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magic	amod
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 used	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 used	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 used	nsubj
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 used	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 change	mark
13	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 used	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 change	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	13 change	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 man	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 change	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	she	real magic		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer magic=Stimulus
2	use	past	she	magic		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	change back	to-infinitive	she not said here	her son	into a man result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent son=Patient into man=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she knew magic and changed him back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 changed	cc
7	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 changed	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 changed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	she					magic property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	change back	past	she not said here	him = he					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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