Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the…
Did the narrator actually check the palace out properly?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, check out · To what, where: narrator, palace
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 narrator | det |
| 3 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 check | advmod |
| 5 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 check | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 check | compound:prt |
| 9 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 5 check | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the narrator | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrator=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | check out | present | the palace | actually, properly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he just took some jewels, nothing else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 jewels | det |
| 7 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nothing | punct |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 took | obj |
| 10 | else | else | ADV | _ | 9 nothing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | he | some jewels | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument jewel=Theme nothing=Destination |
Option 2
Yeah, he looked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | 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 | look | past | he | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yeah, he looked round quick, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mate | amod |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mate | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | he | round quick mate | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mate=Attribute |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he just grabbed the gold, no looking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 grabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 grabbed | advmod |
| 5 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gold | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grabbed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 looking | det |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 grabbed | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | he | the gold | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | he not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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