Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse…

wait so who is the big boss guy, the caliph or the dervish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: big boss guy

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 216 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse ends, and the Caliph questions the cruel young man» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	1 wait	advmod
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 guy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 guy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guy	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 guy	amod
7	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guy	compound
8	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 so	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 caliph	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 caliph	det
11	caliph	caliph	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guy	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 dervish	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dervish	det
14	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guy	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the big boss guy and the caliph or the dervish					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

the dervish, who is the real boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dervish	det
2	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boss	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 boss	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boss	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boss	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boss	amod
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dervish	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the dervish	the real boss					tree rules

Option 2

the dervish, a holy man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dervish	det
2	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dervish	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the caliph, Haroun-al-Raschid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 caliph	det
2	caliph	caliph	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Haroun	punct
4	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 caliph	appos
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 al	punct
6	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Haroun	flat
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Raschid	punct
8	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Haroun	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the dervish, who was the true ruler of all the lands around Balsora

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dervish	det
2	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ruler	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ruler	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ruler	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ruler	det
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ruler	amod
8	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dervish	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 lands	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 lands	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lands	det
12	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ruler	nmod
13	around	around	ADP	_	14 Balsora	case
14	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lands	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the dervish	the true ruler				of all lands around Balsora	tree rules

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