Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part…

bro, did his dad actually try to kill him or was that fake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, that · What happens: do, try, kill, be · To what, where: dad, bro

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 207 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part 47: Noureddin's friends desert him and the Persian is put up for sale» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dad	nmod:poss
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 try	advmod
7	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 kill	mark
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kill	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 fake	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fake	cop
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 fake	nsubj
14	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 try	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	bro	bro's dad		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Eventuality
2	try	present	bro not said here		actually property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	bro not said here	bro		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is	past	that		fake 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

Real, his dad really meant it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meant	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 meant	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meant	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 meant	advmod
6	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 meant	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	his dad	it					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Real, but the mum talked the dad out of it later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 talked	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 talked	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 talked	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mum	det
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	nsubj
6	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dad	det
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 it	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talked	obl
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 talked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the mum	the dad		it		late property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dad=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fake, his mum totally saved him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mum	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fake	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saved	nsubj
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 saved	advmod
6	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	his Fake mum	him = he				totally property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Fake, the whole palace knew it was staged for show

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knew	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fake	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 palace	amod
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 staged	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 staged	aux:pass
9	staged	stage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 knew	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 show	case
11	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 staged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the whole palace						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stage	past · passive		palace				for show	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for show=Beneficiary

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