Test 12 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…

Did the Vizier say anything nice about the Caliph's new look?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Vizier · What happens: say · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Vizier	det
3	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 say	obj
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 anything	amod
7	about	about	ADP	_	12 look	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Caliph	det
9	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 look	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Caliph	case
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	amod
12	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nice	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Vizier	anything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he said the Caliph looked like a bit of a fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Caliph	det
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 looked	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 bit	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 fool	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fool	det
13	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	past	the Caliph					like a bit of a fool	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Yeah, he said the stork was sweet and very tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stork	det
6	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sweet	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sweet	cop
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tall	cc
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 tall	advmod
11	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sweet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the stork	sweet property	tree rules
3	be		the stork not said here		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said the Caliph was handsomer as a stork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Caliph	det
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 handsomer	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 handsomer	cop
8	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 said	ccomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 stork	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stork	det
11	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handsomer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Caliph					as a stork; handsome property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he said the Caliph was handsomer as a stork, and even said he'd look better on a throne as a bird

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Caliph	det
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 handsomer	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 handsomer	cop
8	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 said	ccomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 stork	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stork	det
11	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handsomer	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 said	advmod
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 look	nsubj
17	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 look	aux
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 look	xcomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 throne	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 throne	det
22	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 bird	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bird	det
25	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Caliph	as a stork; handsome property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	he not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	would	stork	as a bird; on a throne; good property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on throne=Theme

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