Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the…

Did the dervish give him the box, or did he have to nick it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: give, have, nick · To what, where: dervish, him, box

This is test 9 · ★ 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dervish	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dervish	det
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 nick	mark
14	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 nick	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	present		the dervish	him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient box=Theme
2	have	past · do-support	he			tree rules
3	nick	to-infinitive	he not said here	box		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

He gave it over, but only after the narrator had begged and pulled at his robe for ages

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 begged	cc
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 narrator	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 narrator	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrator	det
10	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 begged	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 begged	aux
12	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gave	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pulled	cc
14	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 begged	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 robe	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 robe	nmod:poss
17	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulled	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 ages	case
19	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give over	past	He	it			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past · perfect · passive		the narrator			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: subject=Recipient
3	pull	participle			for ages	at his robe	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at robe=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He handed it over only after a long argument about the poor and their rights

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 handed	nsubj
2	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 handed	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	2 handed	compound:prt
5	only	only	ADV	_	9 argument	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 argument	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 argument	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 argument	amod
9	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handed	obj
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 argument	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rights	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 rights	nmod:poss
15	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 argument	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand over	past	He	it					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination argument=Theme

Option 3

He passed it over, quite calmly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	2 passed	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 calmly	punct
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 calmly	advmod
7	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	2 passed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass over	past	He	it				calmly property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He handed it over, nice and easy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 handed	nsubj
2	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 handed	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	2 handed	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nice	punct
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 handed	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 easy	cc
8	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand over	past	He	it					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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