Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy'…

Yo, did Saouy really gobble the top bit of the letter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, gobble · To what, where: Saouy, top bit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 210 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy's plot nearly kills Noureddin, but the vizir arrives in time» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 gobble	advmod
6	gobble	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bit	det
8	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bit	amod
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gobble	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 letter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 letter	det
12	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Saouy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saouy=Eventuality
2	gobble	present		the top bit of the letter					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bit=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

Nah, he just tore the top off, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tore	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 tore	advmod
5	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tore	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	5 tore	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tore	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore off	past	he	the top				mate vocative	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he swallowed it like a sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 swallowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swallowed	nsubj
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swallowed	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 sweet	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sweet	det
8	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	he	it				like a sweet	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Yep, he gobbled the top bit up, letter and seal and all, right in front of the vizir

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 gobbled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gobbled	nsubj
4	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nsubj
7	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gobbled	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 bit	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 letter	punct
10	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gobbled	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seal	cc
12	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 letter	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 all	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 letter	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 front	punct
16	right	right	ADV	_	18 front	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 front	case
18	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gobbled	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 vizir	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 vizir	det
21	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble	past	he	letter and seal		front of the vizir			tree rules
2	bite up	past	the top						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, he ate it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj

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

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