Test 2 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…

Wait, who is this Mirza bloke everyone's cheering for?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, everyone · What happens: wait, be, bloke, cheer · To what, where: Mirza

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bloke	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 bloke	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Mirza	cop
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 Mirza	det
6	Mirza	mirza	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bloke	nsubj
7	bloke	bloke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 cheering	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cheering	aux
10	cheering	cheer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 bloke	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	10 cheering	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		this Mirza	tree rules
3	bloke	past			tree rules
4	cheer	present · progressive	everyone		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

He's the son of that magician Kaschnur, the Caliph's enemy, and he's a proper baddie

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 son	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 son	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 magician	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 magician	det
7	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
8	Kaschnur	Kaschnur	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 magician	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 enemy	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caliph	det
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 enemy	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Caliph	case
13	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Kaschnur	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 baddie	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 baddie	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 baddie	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 baddie	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 baddie	det
19	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 baddie	amod
20	baddie	baddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	the son and a proper baddie				of that magician	tree rules
2	is a	present	Kaschnur	a proper baddie					tree rules

Option 2

He's the Caliph's nephew who got lost on his way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nephew	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 nephew	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caliph	det
4	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nephew	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Caliph	case
6	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lost	nsubj
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux:pass
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 nephew	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obl
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	the Caliph's nephew					tree rules
2	lose	past · passive		the Caliph's nephew		his way			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He's the son of that magician Kaschnur, the Caliph's enemy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 son	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 son	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 magician	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 magician	det
7	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
8	Kaschnur	Kaschnur	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 magician	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 enemy	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caliph	det
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 enemy	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Caliph	case
13	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	the son and the Caliph's enemy				of that magician	tree rules

Option 4

He's the son of that magician Kaschnur, the Caliph's enemy, and he's been crowned Lord of Bagdad today

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 son	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 son	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 magician	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 magician	det
7	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
8	Kaschnur	Kaschnur	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 magician	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 enemy	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caliph	det
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 enemy	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Caliph	case
13	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Kaschnur	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crowned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crowned	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 crowned	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 crowned	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 crowned	aux:pass
19	crowned	crown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 son	acl
20	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 crowned	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Bagdad	case
22	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Lord	nmod
23	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Lord	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	the son				of that magician	tree rules
2	crown	present · passive		Kaschnur				Lord of Bagdad obl	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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