Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king…

the gardener said he needed nothing, he was almost done, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gardener · What happens: say, need, be · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 203 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king makes a stranger his heir, and a gardener's treasure is found» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 needed	nsubj
5	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 needed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	cop
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	11 done	advmod
11	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	11 done	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the gardener			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	past	gardener	nothing		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
3	is	past	gardener		almost, done property	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 right answer

yeah, he said he was near the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 end	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 end	cop
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	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	he				near the end		tree rules

Option 2

nah, he actually said he needed a ship and wanted to go find his friends in the town first

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 needed	nsubj
7	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ship	det
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needed	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wanted	cc
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 needed	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 friends	nmod:poss
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 find	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 town	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 town	det
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			actually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	past	he	a ship			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ship=Theme
3	want	past	he not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		the town	first property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	find	infinitive	he not said here	his friends			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic

Option 3

yeah, he said he needed nothing because he was almost done with his whole life and digging

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 needed	nsubj
6	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 needed	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 done	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux:pass
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 done	advmod
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 needed	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 life	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 life	amod
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 done	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 digging	cc
18	digging	digging	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 life	conj

#	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 clause=Topic
2	need	past	he	nothing		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
3	do	past · passive		he	with his whole life and digging; almost property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

nope, he said he still had years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj

#	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 clause=Topic
2	have	past	he				still; year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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