Test 11 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…
Is the Caliph's enemy a total baddie or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: enemy
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enemy | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Caliph | det |
| 3 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Caliph | case |
| 5 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 baddie | csubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 baddie | det |
| 7 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 baddie | amod |
| 8 | baddie | baddie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 baddie | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 baddie | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Caliph's enemy | 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
Yeah, he wanted to get the Caliph, so proper nasty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Caliph | det |
| 8 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nasty | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 nasty | advmod |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nasty | amod |
| 12 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wanted | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | the Caliph | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer caliph=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yeah, he vowed vengeance on the Caliph, so proper evil, and he's been plotting it for years and years
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 vowed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 vowed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 vowed | nsubj |
| 4 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vowed | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Caliph | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Caliph | det |
| 8 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vowed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 evil | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 proper | advmod |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 evil | amod |
| 12 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vowed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plotting | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 plotting | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 plotting | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 plotting | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 plotting | aux |
| 18 | plotting | plot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 vowed | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 plotting | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 plotting | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 years | cc |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 years | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past | he | vengeance | the Caliph | proper evil obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | plot | present · progressive | he | vengeance | year | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he vowed vengeance on the Caliph, so proper evil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 vowed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 vowed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 vowed | nsubj |
| 4 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vowed | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Caliph | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Caliph | det |
| 8 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vowed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 evil | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 proper | advmod |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 evil | amod |
| 12 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past | he | vengeance | the Caliph | proper evil obl | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, he vowed vengeance on the Caliph, so proper evil and sneaky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 vowed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 vowed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 vowed | nsubj |
| 4 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vowed | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Caliph | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Caliph | det |
| 8 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vowed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 evil | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 evil | advmod |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 evil | amod |
| 12 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 vowed | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sneaky | cc |
| 14 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 evil | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past | he | vengeance | the Caliph | tree rules |
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