Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11:…

so the Caliph thought telling his name and rank would sort everything, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Caliph, telling · What happens: think, tell, sort, name · To what, where: name, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 171 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11: the Calenders reveal who they are, and the First Calender 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Caliph	det
3	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sort	csubj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rank	cc
9	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	conj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sort	aux
11	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 sort	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sort	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	11 sort	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Caliph		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund		Caliph's name and rank	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
3	sort	would	telling	everything	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
4	name		Caliph		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he reckoned the danger would only grow worse if they told their names

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 danger	det
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 grow	advmod
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckoned	ccomp
10	worse	badly	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 grow	advmod
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 told	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	advcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 names	nmod:poss
15	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 told	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 clause=Theme
2	grow	would	the danger		badly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	they	their names		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
4	name		their = they			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

yeah, he thought the danger would stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 danger	det
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stop	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stop	aux
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stop	would	the danger						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he reckoned it would end the danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckoned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 end	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 end	aux
7	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckoned	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 danger	det
9	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	end	would	it	the danger					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality danger=Eventuality

Option 4

yeah, he reckoned that telling his name and rank would end the danger for them all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckoned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 end	mark
6	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 end	csubj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rank	cc
10	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	conj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 end	aux
12	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckoned	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 danger	det
14	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 end	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund		his name and rank		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
3	end	would	telling	the danger	for name	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality danger=Eventuality
4	name		his = he			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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