Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the…

Was the dervish gonna be rich after all that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dervish · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 215 «Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the greedy narrator takes more camels and begs for the magic ointment» 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	6 rich	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dervish	det
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rich	nsubj
4	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 rich	dep
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 rich	cop
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 rich	conj
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 all	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 rich	punct

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

Nah, he lost nearly all his camels, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 all	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 camels	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 camels	nmod:poss
8	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 camels	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	his camels and mate					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he still had twenty camels and a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 camels	nummod
7	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 box	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 box	det
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 camels	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	twenty camels and a box			still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Patient

Option 3

Nah, he was broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 broke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 broke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broke	cop
5	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, he kept twenty camels and the box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 camels	nummod
6	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 box	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 box	det
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 camels	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	twenty camels and the box					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Theme

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