Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badou…

Did the prince reckon all girls were rubbish and spoiled, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince, girls · What happens: reckon, be, spoil, innit · To what, where: rubbish

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 197 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura, part 37: the prince refuses to marry and is locked in a tower» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 girls	det
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rubbish	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rubbish	cop
8	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spoiled	cc
10	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rubbish	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckon	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the prince		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	all girls	rubbish	tree rules
3	spoil	participle	all girls not said here		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	innit	infinitive	the prince not said here		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

Yeah, he said they were all proud and cruel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 proud	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 proud	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 proud	advmod
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cruel	cc
10	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 proud	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they	all, proud property	tree rules
3	be		they not said here		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he reckoned all girls were rubbish and spoiled, and he wouldn't meet a single one

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckoned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 girls	det
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rubbish	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rubbish	cop
8	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckoned	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spoiled	cc
10	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rubbish	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 meet	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 meet	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meet	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 meet	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 meet	advmod
16	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckoned	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 one	det
18	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	past	he		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	all girls	rubbish	tree rules
3	spoil	participle	all girls not said here		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	not meet	would	he	a single one	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent

Option 3

Nah, he said some were good, just not all of them, and he hoped to meet a sensible one someday

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 good	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 good	cop
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 all	advmod
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 all	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 good	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 all	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hoped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hoped	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hoped	nsubj
17	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 meet	mark
19	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hoped	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 someday	det
21	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 someday	amod
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 someday	compound
23	someday	someday	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 meet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	some		good property	tree rules
3	hope	past	he			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	meet not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	a sensible one someday		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someday=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he said some were good, just not all of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 good	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 good	cop
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 all	advmod
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 all	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 good	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	some					good property	tree rules

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