Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse…

bruh, why did Sidi-Nouman keep whipping his horse?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sidi · What happens: keep, whip · To what, where: horse

This is test 4 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 keep	aux
5	Sidi	Sidi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 keep	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Nouman	punct
7	Nouman	Nouman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sidi	flat
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	whipping	whip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horse	nmod:poss
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whipping	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Sidi						tree rules
2	whip	gerund	Sidi not said here	Sidi's horse					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent horse=Material

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 · ✓ the right answer

he was super mad, not really cruel

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	4 mad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	cop
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cruel	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cruel	advmod
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 cruel	advmod
8	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mad, super property	tree rules
2	not be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 2

because a dervish had told him that horses bring bad luck to men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dervish	det
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bring	obj
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bring	nsubj
9	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 luck	amod
11	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 men	case
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		a dervish	him = he				tree rules
2	bring	present	horses	that				to men	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination luck=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he was furious at the Caliph and wanted to take it out on the animal

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	3 furious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 furious	cop
3	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 Caliph	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Caliph	det
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 furious	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 furious	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 take	compound:prt
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 animal	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 animal	det
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		the Caliph	furious property	tree rules
2	want	past	he not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	take out not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	Caliph		on the animal	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

he was just showing off to people

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	4 showing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 showing	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 showing	advmod
4	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 showing	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 showing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	past · progressive	he		people				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient

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