Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy'…

What did the magician pull out of his belt?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magician · What happens: pull out · To what, where: belt

This is test 11 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 pull	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 magician	det
4	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pull	nsubj
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 belt	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 belt	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 belt	nmod:poss
9	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pull	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	past · do-support	the magician	magician's belt					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

a flat cake, which he split in two and gave to the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cake	det
2	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cake	amod
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 split	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 split	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 split	nsubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 split	nsubj
7	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 two	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 split	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 split	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 boy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	a flat cake			two			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	give	past	a flat cake not said here		the boy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a cake, which he split in two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 split	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 split	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 split	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 split	nsubj
6	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 two	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	a cake			two			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a cake made of honey and nuts, which he split in two pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 split	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cake	acl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 honey	case
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nuts	cc
7	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 honey	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 split	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 split	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 split	nsubj
11	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 pieces	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pieces	nummod
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a cake not said here				of honey and nuts	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	split	past	a cake			two pieces			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

a pie, which he tore in half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pie	det
2	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tore	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tore	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tore	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tore	nsubj
6	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 half	case
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 tore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	a pie			half			tree rules

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