Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part…

nah for real, did he check the steward's books or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: check · To what, where: books

This is test 12 · ★ 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	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 real	discourse
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 real	case
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 check	punct
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 check	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 check	nsubj
7	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 real	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 steward	det
9	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 books	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 steward	case
11	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 check	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nah	cc
13	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 check	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	past · do-support	he	the steward's books					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

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

Yes, he checked them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 checked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 checked	nsubj
4	checked	check	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 checked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	past	he	them = they					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Yes, he read every page of the ledger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 page	det
6	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 ledger	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ledger	det
9	ledger	ledger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 page	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	he	every page of the ledger					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Topic
2	page			the ledger					nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he sent him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past	he	him = he				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he never looked because he was ashamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 looked	advmod
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 ashamed	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ashamed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ashamed	cop
9	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	past	he						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	he					ashamed property	tree rules

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