Test 9 · ★ · Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a…

Sick, what did the Caliph pick up for the Vizier's missus?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Caliph · What happens: sick, pick up

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1871 «Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a pedlar sells the Caliph a scroll that the learned Selim finds is Latin» 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pick	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 pick	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pick	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Caliph	det
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pick	nsubj
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sick	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 pick	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 missus	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Vizier	det
11	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 missus	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Vizier	case
13	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	pick up	past · do-support	the Caliph					for the Vizier's missus	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

A jewelled comb, proper bling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 comb	det
2	jewelled	jewell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 comb	amod
3	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bling	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bling	amod
6	bling	bling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comb	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jewell	participle							tree rules

Option 2

A jewelled comb and a pearl necklace, proper bling for the missus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 comb	det
2	jewelled	jewell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 comb	amod
3	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 necklace	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 necklace	det
6	pearl	pearl	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 necklace	amod
7	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comb	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bling	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bling	amod
10	bling	bling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comb	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 missus	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 missus	det
13	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jewell	participle							tree rules

Option 3

A jewelled comb, proper bling, and a pair of golden earrings for her

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 comb	det
2	jewelled	jewell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 comb	amod
3	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bling	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bling	amod
6	bling	bling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comb	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pair	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pair	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pair	det
10	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comb	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 earrings	case
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 earrings	amod
13	earrings	earring	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pair	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pair	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jewell	participle							tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A silver ring, proper nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nice	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ring	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	amod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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