Test 6 · ★ · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,…

Mate, did the Vizier fancy marrying the owl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, Vizier fancy · What happens: do, marry · To what, where: Vizier fancy, owl

This is test 6 · ★ 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	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fancy	det
5	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fancy	compound
6	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fancy	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 owl	det
9	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marrying	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the Vizier fancy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Eventuality
2	marry	gerund	the Vizier fancy not said here	the owl					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owl=Patient

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 right answer

No way, he said his wife would go mental

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
10	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	no way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	would	his wife					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he is too old for that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 old	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					for that; old property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, gladly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 gladly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yeah, but his wife would kill him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 kill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kill	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 kill	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kill	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 kill	aux
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	would	his wife	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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