Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, p…

Lowkey, what gift did the parrot have?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: have

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 166 «Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, part 6: the king doubts the vizir, then condemns the physician to death» 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
4	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 parrot	det
7	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	Lowkey						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

it could speak every tongue of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 speak	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 speak	aux
3	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tongue	det
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 speak	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tongue	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	could	it	every tongue of the sea					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it could repeat every word spoken in the house by anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 repeat	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 repeat	aux
3	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repeat	obj
6	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 word	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 anyone	case
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 repeat	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 repeat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	could	it	every word		all		by anyone	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	participle		every word not said here		the house			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it could tell all that had been done before it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 done	det:predet
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 done	obj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tell	ccomp
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	it				before it		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past · perfect · passive		that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality

Option 4

it could tell all that had been done before it and foretell the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 done	det:predet
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 done	obj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tell	ccomp
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 done	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 foretell	cc
12	foretell	foretell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rain	det
14	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 foretell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	it			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past · perfect · passive		that	before it	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality
3	foretell	infinitive		the rain		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme

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