Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the…

Did the narrator listen to the dervish's advice about the poor?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: listen

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 narrator	det
3	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	nsubj
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 advice	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dervish	det
7	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 advice	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dervish	case
9	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 poor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poor	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 advice	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past · do-support	the narrator					to the dervish's advice about the poor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme

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, he laughed and carried on regardless, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carried	cc
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 carried	advmod
8	regardless	regardless	ADV	_	6 carried	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry on	past	he not said here					regardless property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he thought about it and gave some away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 gave	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he					about it	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	give away	past	he not said here	some				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent some=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he ignored it and just wanted more stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ignored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignored	nsubj
4	ignored	ignore	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 ignored	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 wanted	advmod
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ignored	conj
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 stuff	amod
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	he	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	want	past	he not said here	more stuff					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stuff=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he ignored it completely and spent the rest of his days just chasing wealth

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ignored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignored	nsubj
4	ignored	ignore	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 ignored	obj
6	completely	completely	ADV	_	4 ignored	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spent	cc
8	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ignored	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spent	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 days	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 days	nmod:poss
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rest	nmod
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 chasing	advmod
15	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 spent	advcl
16	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	he	it	completely property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	spend	past	he not said here	the rest of his days		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset
3	chase	gerund	he not said here	wealth		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme

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