Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 49: t…

bruh, how many candles did the old dude say to light, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old dude · What happens: say · To what, where: light · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 209 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 49: the Caliph disguised as a fisherman» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 candles	amod
5	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dude	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dude	amod
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 light	case
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 real	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 real	case
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 say	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the old dude		light				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to light=Recipient

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

two, he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 said	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 two	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	two					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

three or four, he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 said	advcl
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 four	cc
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 three	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nine, he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 said	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nine	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	Nine					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

five or six, he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 said	obl
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 six	cc
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 five	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	five					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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