Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

Was Baba dead rich before, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Baba

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Baba	cop
2	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rich	nsubj
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rich	amod
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	before	before	ADV	_	4 rich	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 rich	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Baba					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 · ← Mova's choice

nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

yeah, he had

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	he						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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