Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the…

Honest, was the narrator actually fair to the dervish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Honest narrator

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 narrator	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honest	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 narrator	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrator	det
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fair	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 fair	advmod
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 dervish	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dervish	det
10	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fair	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Honest narrator					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 cheated him every single time and then tried to take the box as well

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cheated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheated	nsubj
4	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheated	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheated	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tried	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 tried	advmod
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cheated	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 box	det
15	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
16	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	13 take	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cheat	past	he	him = he	time	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source
2	try	past	he not said here		then	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the box		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he was fair until the very end, when he cheated him out of everything

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fair	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fair	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	cop
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	until	until	ADP	_	9 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 end	advmod
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fair	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cheated	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 cheated	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cheated	nsubj
13	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cheated	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 everything	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 everything	case
17	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 cheated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				until the end	fair property	tree rules
2	cheat	past	he	him = he		everything			vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source

Option 3

Yeah, he paid him fair each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	obj
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paid	xcomp
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he	him = he			time	fair property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he cheated him every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cheated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheated	nsubj
4	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheated	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheated	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past	he	him = he			time		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source

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