Test 13 · ★ · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,…
Mate, so who was the new boss of Bagdad?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: new boss
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 boss | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 boss | advmod |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 boss | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 boss | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boss | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boss | amod |
| 8 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Bagdad | case |
| 10 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 boss | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mate | the new boss | of Bagdad | 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
The magician, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 magician | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Caliph, obviously, once he got his throne back from the usurper
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 | 8 got | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Caliph | punct |
| 4 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 2 Caliph | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 6 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 8 got | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 throne | nmod:poss |
| 10 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 usurper | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 usurper | det |
| 14 | usurper | usurper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | the Caliph | Caliph's throne | the usurper | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent throne=Theme from usurper=Source |
Option 3
The Caliph, obviously, after the storks sorted the whole mess out
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 | 9 sorted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Caliph | punct |
| 4 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 9 sorted | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 obviously | punct |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 sorted | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 storks | det |
| 8 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sorted | nsubj |
| 9 | sorted | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mess | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mess | amod |
| 12 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sorted | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sorted | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort out | past | the Caliph | the whole mess | obviously property | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Caliph, obviously
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 | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Caliph | punct |
| 4 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 2 Caliph | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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