Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king…

so they split the gold in the end, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: split · To what, where: gold, end

This is test 12 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 split	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 split	nsubj
3	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gold	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 split	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 split	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 split	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	they	the gold			in the end and fam		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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

yeah, the king got half of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 got	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 half	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the king	half of half					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they split it fair and square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 split	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 split	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 split	nsubj
4	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 split	obj
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 split	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 square	cc
8	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fair	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	they	it				fair property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nope, the gardener took it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gardener	det
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the gardener	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

nah, they gave the whole treasure to the temple of the idolaters so nobody argued anymore, fam

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 treasure	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 treasure	amod
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 temple	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 temple	det
10	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 idolaters	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 idolaters	det
13	idolaters	idolater	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 temple	nmod
14	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 argued	mark
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 argued	nsubj
16	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	advcl
17	anymore	anymore	ADV	_	16 argued	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fam	punct
19	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	the whole treasure	the temple of the idolaters			fam obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme to temple=Recipient
2	argue speech: disagree	past	nobody					anymore property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/203-pg128-part43/t12/