Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad, part 1: Ali…

Did Ali's friend even remember the vase?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: remember · To what, where: vase

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 219 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad, part 1: Ali hides gold in a vase of olives, and his friend steals it» 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	6 remember	aux
2	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 friend	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Ali	case
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 remember	advmod
6	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vase	det
8	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remember	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 remember	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past · do-support		the vase					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent vase=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

Nope, it popped up a few days before Ali came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 popped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 popped	nsubj
4	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 popped	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 days	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 popped	obl:unmarked
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 popped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop up	past	it				day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Ali						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nope, it came back to him a week later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 week	det
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 later	obl:unmarked
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	it		him = he			late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, it only popped into his head a month before Ali came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 popped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 popped	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 popped	advmod
5	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 popped	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 month	det
10	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 popped	obl:unmarked
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
12	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop	past	it				month	into his head result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into head=Result
2	come back	past	Ali						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nope, it only popped into his head a month before Ali got back home

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 popped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 popped	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 popped	advmod
5	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 popped	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 month	det
10	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 popped	obl:unmarked
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 got	mark
12	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 popped	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
15	home	home	ADV	_	13 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop	past	it				month	into his head result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into head=Result
2	get back	past	Ali					home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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