Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

Did the magician's brother fool the princess proper, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: fool · To what, where: princess

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 214 «Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part 1: the Caliph is stopped by a blind beggar who begs to be struck» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fool	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brother	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 magician	case
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fool	nsubj
6	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fool	obj
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 fool	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 fool	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past · do-support	the magician's brother	the princess				properly property	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

yeah, he tricked her good and proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tricked	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 proper	cc
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	her = she				good property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he tricked her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	her = she					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she saw through him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	she					through him = he	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

nah, she saw right through his disguise and laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	8 disguise	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 disguise	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 disguise	nmod:poss
8	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laughed	cc
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	she	his disguise					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer disguise=Stimulus
2	laugh	past	she not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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