Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 51: t…

so the mum was like the only one who could go up to the Sultan?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, only one · What happens: be, go up

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 211 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 51: the lamp brings the bride and groom to Aladdin's room» 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	so	so	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mum	det
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 one	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 go	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 one	acl:relcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 go	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Sultan	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Sultan	det
15	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mum					like the only one	tree rules
2	go up	could	the only one					to the Sultan	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «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

Nah, anyone can go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 go	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	can	anyone						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she's the only one allowed to ask him stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 one	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ask	mark
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 allowed	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ask	obj
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	she	the only one		tree rules
2	allow	participle		the only one not said here		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	the only one not said here	stuff	him = he	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she's the only one who gets sent in by the vizir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sent	nsubj
9	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sent	aux:pass
10	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 one	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 sent	compound:prt
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 vizir	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vizir	det
14	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	the only one					tree rules
2	send in	present · passive	the vizir	the only one					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, and that's it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 it	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 it	cc
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 it	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 it	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	it					tree rules

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