Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, p…

Mate, why did the vizir reckon Douban was dodgy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: vizir, Douban · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: Mate

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 reckon	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vizir	det
6	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Douban	Douban	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dodgy	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dodgy	cop
10	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reckon	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the vizir	Mate					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Douban					dodgy property	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 · ✓ the right answer

he reckoned Douban was out to do the king in

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Douban	Douban	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 out	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 out	cop
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 reckoned	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckoned	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	7 do	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Douban		out property	tree rules
3	do in	to-infinitive	he not said here	the king		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality

Option 2

he reckoned Douban was out to do the king in and steal the crown

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Douban	Douban	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 out	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 out	cop
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 reckoned	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckoned	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	7 do	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 steal	cc
12	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 reckoned	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crown	det
14	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Douban		out property	tree rules
3	do in	to-infinitive	he not said here	the king		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
4	steal	present	he not said here	the crown		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crown=Theme

Option 3

he reckoned Douban had been bribed by the Greek enemies to ruin the realm

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Douban	Douban	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bribed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bribed	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 bribed	aux:pass
6	bribed	bribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reckoned	ccomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 enemies	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 enemies	det
9	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 enemies	amod
10	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bribed	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 ruin	mark
12	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bribed	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 realm	det
14	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ruin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	past	he		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bribe	past · perfect · passive	the Greek enemies	Douban	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	ruin	to-infinitive	the Greek enemies not said here	the realm	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent realm=Patient

Option 4

he believed Douban was a traitor

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 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Douban	Douban	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 traitor	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 traitor	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 traitor	det
6	traitor	traitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 believed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	he						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	Douban	a traitor					tree rules

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