Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy'…

Did Aladdin's dad get a shop before he died?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: do, get, die · To what, where: shop

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dad	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Aladdin	case
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shop	det
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 died	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	get	present	Aladdin's dad	a shop	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shop=Stimulus
3	die	past	dad		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Nope, the shop was never built

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shop	det
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux:pass
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 built	advmod
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not build	past · passive		the shop					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, the tailor was dead by then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 then	case
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tailor					dead property	tree rules

Option 3

Yep, he got it the week before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	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 got	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl:unmarked
8	before	before	ADV	_	4 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	it			week	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Nope, the poor tailor had already died long before the uncle came back to town

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	8 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tailor	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tailor	amod
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
7	already	already	ADV	_	8 died	advmod
8	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 came	advcl
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 died	advmod
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 uncle	det
12	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 town	case
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	the poor tailor					long property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	come back	past	the uncle			town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location

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