Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator…
did the narrator just beg for mercy or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: narrator
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 174 «Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator smashes the talisman, and the genius catches him» 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 narrator | det |
| 3 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 did | obj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 beg | advmod |
| 5 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 did | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mercy | case |
| 7 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beg | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 mercy | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the narrator | beg for mercy obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrator=Eventuality |
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, he begged the genius to spare his life and promised to become a holy man
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 begged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 genius | det |
| 6 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 spare | mark |
| 8 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spare | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 promised | cc |
| 12 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 become | mark |
| 14 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 promised | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 become | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | he | the genius | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent genius=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive | he not said here | his life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | he not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | a holy man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
yeah, he begged for the princess's life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 begged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 princess | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | he | for the princess's life | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for life=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he asked for his life to be spared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 asked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 spared | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 spared | aux:pass |
| 10 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 asked | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | he | for his life | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive · passive | he not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset» |
Option 4
nah, he refused to beg and asked the genius to kill him quickly instead
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 refused | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 beg | mark |
| 6 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refused | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refused | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 genius | det |
| 10 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 kill | advmod |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 12 kill | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | he | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not beg speech: request | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | he not said here | the genius | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent genius=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the genius not said here | him = he | instead, quickly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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