Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the oli…

Sick, so the princess was well into olives, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, princess · What happens: sick, be · To what, where: olives

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 204 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the olives hide the gold and the talisman, and the prince is carried off» 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 olives	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 olives	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 olives	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 olives	cop
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 olives	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 olives	case
9	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sick	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Sick	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past	the princess			olives		well 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

Nah, she only ate the figs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 figs	det
7	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	she	the figs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fig=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, she was dead keen on them and ordered every jar the captain had on board

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 keen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keen	amod
6	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ordered	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ordered	cc
10	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 jar	det
12	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ordered	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 captain	det
14	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ordered	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 board	case
17	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	dead keen		on them = they	tree rules
2	order	past		every jar			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme
3	have	past	the captain		board		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was dead keen on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 keen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keen	amod
6	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	dead keen				on them = they	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she loved them a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	she	them = they				a lot obl:unmarked	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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