Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…

Did the king of Serendib, like, want all his jewels?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, want · To what, where: king, jewels

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 189 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad floats out of a dark underground river and is welcomed in Serendib» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Serendib	case
5	Serendib	Serendib	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	9 want	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Did	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 jewels	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 jewels	nmod:poss
12	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 want	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the king of Serendib					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
2	want	infinitive		Serendib's jewels					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jewel=Theme

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

Nah, he wanted to add to them, not keep them for himself, and he gave gifts

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 add	mark
6	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 add	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keep	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 keep	advmod
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 add	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 keep	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
19	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	he				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	add speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		them = they		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to they=Co-Patient
3	not keep	infinitive	he not said here	them = they		for himself = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	give	past	he	gifts			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he wanted to add to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 add	mark
6	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	add speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		them = they				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to they=Co-Patient

Option 3

Yeah, he wanted all the jewels for his own treasury in the royal palace

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 jewels	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jewels	det
7	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 treasury	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 treasury	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 treasury	amod
11	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 palace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
14	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 palace	amod
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	all jewels		the royal palace		for his own treasury	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jewel=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he wanted them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	them = they					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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