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

Why didn't they just go back to the palace and say who they were?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: not go back, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	ccomp
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 who	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 who	cop
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not go back	past · do-support	they	to the palace result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	they not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	they		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

Cos nobody would believe a stork saying he's the Caliph, and they'd get chased off

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 believe	mark
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 believe	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	aux
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stork	det
6	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believe	obj
7	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stork	acl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 Caliph	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Caliph	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caliph	det
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saying	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chased	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 chased	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chased	nsubj:pass
15	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 chased	aux
16	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 chased	aux:pass
17	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 believe	ccomp
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 chased	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	believe	would	nobody	a stork	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a stork not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	stork	the Caliph	tree rules
4	chase off	would · passive		they	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos nobody would believe a stork saying he's the Caliph, and the guards would just shoot them both with arrows

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	2 nobody	case
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 believe	obl
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	aux
4	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stork	det
6	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believe	obj
7	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stork	acl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 Caliph	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Caliph	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caliph	det
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saying	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shoot	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shoot	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 guards	det
15	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shoot	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 shoot	aux
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 shoot	advmod
18	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 believe	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shoot	obj
20	both	both	ADV	_	18 shoot	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 arrows	case
22	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shoot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	would		a stork	cos nobody	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stork=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a stork not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	stork	the Caliph		tree rules
4	shoot	would	the guards	them = they	with arrows; both property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with arrow=Instrument

Option 3

Cos the guards would chase off any silly stray bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 chase	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guards	det
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chase	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 chase	aux
5	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 chase	compound:prt
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 bird	det
8	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
9	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chase	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	would	the guards	any silly stray bird					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos nobody would believe a stork saying he's the Caliph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 believe	mark
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 believe	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	aux
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stork	det
6	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believe	obj
7	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stork	acl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 Caliph	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Caliph	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caliph	det
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	believe	would	nobody	a stork	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stork=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a stork not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	stork	the Caliph	tree rules

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