Test 1 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…
Okay so the Caliph and Mansor are storks now, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Caliph · What happens: be
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1872 «Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget the magic word and spend a night in a haunted ruin» 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 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 8 storks | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Caliph | det |
| 4 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 storks | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Mansor | cc |
| 6 | Mansor | Mansor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Caliph | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 storks | cop |
| 8 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Okay | obl |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Okay | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Okay | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Okay | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Okay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Caliph and Mansor | so storks | 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
Nah, they're storks and the Vizier is fine with it all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 storks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 storks | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 storks | cop |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fine | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Vizier | det |
| 8 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fine | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fine | cop |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 storks | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fine | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 it | det |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | storks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Vizier | storks not said here | fine property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, they're storks now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 storks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 storks | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 storks | cop |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 storks | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | storks | now | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, and they can't remember the magic word, proper stuck, and the Vizier is moaning about it all day long
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 remember | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remember | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 remember | cc |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 remember | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 remember | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 remember | advmod |
| 7 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 word | compound |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remember | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stuck | punct |
| 12 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 13 stuck | advmod |
| 13 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 remember | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 moaning | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 moaning | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Vizier | det |
| 17 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 moaning | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 moaning | aux |
| 19 | moaning | moan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stuck | conj |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 moaning | obl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moaning | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 moaning | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remember | can | they | the magic word | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | moan | present · progressive | the Vizier | day | about word; long property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, and they can't remember the magic word, proper stuck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 remember | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remember | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 remember | cc |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 remember | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 remember | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 remember | advmod |
| 7 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 word | compound |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remember | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stuck | punct |
| 12 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 13 stuck | advmod |
| 13 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 remember | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remember | can | they | the magic word | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
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