Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king…

so the cave had ten steps and fifty jars, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cave · What happens: have · To what, where: ten steps

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cave	det
3	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 steps	nummod
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 jars	cc
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 jars	nummod
9	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 steps	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the cave	ten steps and fifty jars					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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, ten steps down into the dark and fifty bronze jars filled with gold dust and ash

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 steps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 steps	punct
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 steps	nummod
4	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	8 dark	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 dark	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dark	det
8	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steps	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 jars	cc
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 jars	nummod
11	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jars	compound
12	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 steps	conj
13	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 jars	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 dust	case
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dust	compound
16	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 filled	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ash	cc
18	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dust	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	participle		fifty bronze jars not said here				with gold dust and ash	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with dust=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it was ten steps down and fifty jars, but the jars were empty and sealed with wax

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 steps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 steps	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 steps	cop
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 steps	nummod
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 steps	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 jars	cc
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 jars	nummod
10	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 steps	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 empty	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 empty	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jars	det
14	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 empty	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 empty	cop
16	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 steps	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sealed	cc
18	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 empty	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 wax	case
20	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sealed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	ten steps and fifty jars	down property	tree rules
2	is	past	the jars		empty property	tree rules
3	seal	participle	the jars not said here		with wax	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

nah, twenty steps and sixty silver-filled jars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 steps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 steps	nummod
4	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 jars	cc
6	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 jars	nummod
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 filled	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 silver	punct
9	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 jars	amod
10	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 steps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, ten steps down and fifty gold-filled jars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 steps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 steps	punct
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 steps	nummod
4	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 steps	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jars	cc
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 jars	nummod
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 filled	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 gold	punct
10	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 jars	amod
11	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 steps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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