Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Alnaschar, part 34: the broken glass, the…

How many gold pieces did he end up losing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many gold pieces · What happens: end up, lose

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 194 «Arabian Nights, Alnaschar, part 34: the broken glass, the gold, and the trap below the house» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pieces	amod
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pieces	compound
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 end	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 end	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 end	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	past · do-support	many gold pieces						tree rules
2	lose	gerund	many gold pieces not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

He lost every single piece of gold, the whole five hundred, and also his clothes, mate

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 piece	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 piece	amod
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piece	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hundred	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hundred	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hundred	amod
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hundred	compound
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 piece	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 clothes	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 clothes	cc
15	also	also	ADV	_	17 clothes	advmod
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 clothes	nmod:poss
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 lost	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mate	punct
19	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clothes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	every single piece of gold				his clothes and mate obl	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

All of the five hundred, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hundred	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 hundred	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hundred	vocative

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

Option 3

The black slave took the purse and the robe and the old woman took the rest of the money from him

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slave	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slave	amod
3	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 purse	det
6	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 robe	det
9	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 woman	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 robe	conj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rest	det
16	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 money	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 money	det
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rest	nmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the black slave	the purse					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
2	take	past	the robe and the old woman	the rest of the money				from slave	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rest=Theme from he=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only the purse, not the coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 purse	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purse	det
3	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 coins	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 coins	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coins	det
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 purse	conj

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

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