Test 8 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…

The Caliph was well fed up about the magic word, wasn't he?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: feed up, not be · To what, where: Caliph, he

This is test 8 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	aux:pass
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fed	advmod
5	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 fed	compound:prt
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 word	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 word	det
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 he	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 he	cop
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 he	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed up	past · passive		the Caliph				about the magic word; well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	not is a	past		he					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

Yeah, he was dead grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 grumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grumpy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grumpy	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grumpy	amod
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					grumpy property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he was chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chill	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chill	cop
5	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					chill property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he kept chatting about the palace and his fine robes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chatting	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 robes	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 robes	nmod:poss
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 robes	amod
12	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 palace	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	chat speech: other	gerund	he not said here					about the palace and his fine robes	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about palace=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he kept bowing and yelling Mu-mu-mu, mad as anything

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bowing	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 yelling	cc
7	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bowing	conj
8	Mu	Mu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 yelling	obj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Mu	punct
10	mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mu	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 mu	punct
12	mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yelling	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mad	punct
14	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 anything	case
16	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 mad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	he		tree rules
2	bow	gerund	he not said here		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	yell speech: express	gerund	he not said here	Mu	tree rules

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